One day to three night tour of Ohio, the World's Largest Amish Community.
Forget about those so called "reality" TV shows! Learn how the Amish run successful home based businesses without modern technology! Enjoy meals in Amish homes, cooking demos, house tours, make and take items, visits to Amish farms, furniture companies, and craft shops.
Performed by one of the most strict groups of Amish. Have yours signed by one of the children!
Following lunch or dinner learn more about how the Amish ladies do their chores without electricity and what the Amish children like to do for family gatherings and entertainment since they don't have computers or TV.
Guests will observe the process of mak-ing a broom and the hours it takes to make the many sizes of brooms and their passion for creating durable high-quality products one at a time.
Behalt (meaning to “keep or re-member”) is the Amish and Mennonite Heritage Center. The mural tour will introduce your guests to the Amish / Mennonite heritage. The 10’ x 265’ foot cyclorama illustrates the history of the Amish and Mennonite people from their early Anabaptist beginnings in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1525, to the present day.
September is one of the busiest months for Amish weddings. Amish women prepare all foods for the local weddings! Dinner is included at an Amish Home for an Amish Wedding Feast.
Roll up your sleeves and enjoy making your own buckeye candy with one of the top AMISH candy makers. Guests will roll and dip their buckeye candy and will have a delicious treat af-terwards (everyone will re-ceive ½ doz).
Encompassing a 27,000 square-foot showroom displaying thousands of standard furniture pieces which are just a sample of what they offer. Tour factory, a 40,000 square-foot manufacturing facility you can see Amish craftsmen building custom furniture right in front of you.
Guests will enjoy a traditional Amish Church lunch that would be served after Sunday Services in a typical Amish house. The lunch will be served in the New Homestead Furniture Event Center.
Mary Troyer, is Amish and the owner of the business. In addition to can-dles, Troyer stocks gift items and consignments. She special-izes in custom candles and container refills. Guests will learn how to make a muffin candle.
America’s oldest and largest forge, where hand-wrought, functional art is created to shape your life’s special moments. Guests will enjoy a work-shop tour and will create their own work of metal art with assistance from the masters.
This is where Amish ladies shop for their supplies. Starting as a quilt shop in 1965 in the family’s kitchen, the retail store has grown over the years. It now fills two buildings offering over 8,000 bolts of fabric, sewing notions and patterns.
Founded in 1955 you can browse and shop where the Amish shop...from unique oil lamps, cookware, butter churns, hand tools, collectibles, carving tools, hand pumps, and so much more. Guests will marvel at one of North America's treasures. See why people from dozens of countries come to Lehman's.
Fill the senses with the aroma of the best fresh baked pastries in the county! Amazing selections of baked goods: fry pies, ap-ple fritters, muffins. View fresh, colorful produce, homemade bread, kettle corn.
Then there’s the farm store, featuring USA made wooden toys, tack, bird seed, leather goods and more.
Visit the Heini’s Cheese Chalet Factory and Retail Outlet and enjoy free samples of over 80 varieties of locally made cheeses at Heini’s Cheese Chalet including their signature yogurt cheeses made with only local Amish farm milk. Enjoy homemade fudge and other treats! Each guest will receive a chunk of cheese and a loaf of bread!!
Guests will be served an authentic Amish meal at the Country Courtyard and be entertained by members of the Amish Country Theater cast Award-Winning Live theater in Ohio’s Amish Country! Hold on to your seats and get ready for some explosive laughter! Voted a Top 100 Event in North America by the American Bus Association, and performed in a state-of-the art 600-seat auditorium!
Local, knowledgeable guides take you on a 30-40 minute tour through both homes on the property and the barn. Your guide will explain a great deal about the history and lifestyle of the Amish people. Guests will enjoy a buggy ride, visit the old school house, tour of the home and barn.
Ernest “Mooney” Warther, known for his ivory and ebony carvings of steam engines, appraised by the Smithsonian as “Priceless Works of Art”. On this guided tour, guests will see these carvings - from entire trains to a hand carved steel mill. Visit Frieda Warther’s Swiss Garden and Button house, the original Family Home, and one of the areas finest gift shops.
5270 Day Road, Cincinnati OH 45252
Tel: (800) 582-5997
(513) 923-9112
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