Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Lancaster County, sometimes nicknamed the Garden Spot of America or Pennsylvania Dutch Country, is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 552,984, making it Pennsylvania's sixth-most populous county. Its county seat is also Lancaster. Lancaster County comprises the Lancaster metropolitan statistical area. The county is part of the South Central region of the state.
Lancaster County Courthouse in Lancaster
A Pennsylvania Dutch Fraktur baptismal certificate from 1788
An Amish family in a traditional Amish buggy in the county
Amish farmers use only horse power to cultivate their land
Pennsylvania Dutch language
Pennsylvania Dutch, sometimes referred to as Pennsylvania German, is a variation of Palatine German spoken by the Pennsylvania Dutch, including the Amish, Mennonites, Fancy Dutch, and other related groups in the United States and Canada. There are approximately 300,000 native speakers of Pennsylvania Dutch in the United States and Canada.
An example of Pennsylvania High German in Palatine Fraktur: ("...𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖙 𝖒𝖚𝖘𝖘 𝖎𝖈𝖍 𝖇𝖎𝖙𝖙𝖊, 𝖉𝖆𝖘𝖘 𝖎𝖍𝖗 𝖒𝖊𝖎 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍 𝖊𝖝𝖐𝖚𝖍𝖘𝖙, 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖒𝖊𝖎 𝕳𝖔𝖈𝖍𝖉𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍 𝖘𝖆𝖚𝖓𝖉 𝖊𝖓 𝕭𝖎𝖘𝖘𝖊𝖑 𝖕𝖊𝖓𝖓𝖘𝖞𝖑𝖛𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖘𝖈𝖍."; "...first I must ask, that you excuse my German, for my Hochdeutsch sounds a bit Pennsylvanian.")
Pennsylvania Dutch writer Henry Harbaugh
Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1845
Pennsylvania Dutch arts history in Pennsylvania Dutch language