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Amish Settlement

As you travel I-69 between Crane and Washington, Indiana, you cross farm communities where horses are the main means of travel and farming, where windmills dot the landscape, and where laundry flaps in the wind both summer and winter. Between mile marker 68 and 72 is an area of Amish Settlement. "Amish Settlement" one of a series of vignettes that recounts the story of the land crossed by I-69 between I-64 and Bloomington, Indiana. Choose one or all of the vignettes to learn about the cultural and natural landscape as you Travel I-69.

The following narrative discloses the names of towns and interchanges where the Amish have lived and worked along our route and a map provides locational information. Observe towns along the route: Odon, Loogootee, Montgomery, and Washington.

More than a hundred years ago, a local newspaper, the Daviess County Democrat provided insight into community thoughts about the Amish:

"They are an economical sect of people and are great traders. They seldom pay cash for anything but always insist on trading farm products and poultry for what they want . . . They raise all the farm products usually grown in this section of the country and are said to be the most successful poultry raisers in the United States."

—Daviess County Democrat, October 2, 18971

Locations Of Amish Settlement

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