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Typical Day of an Amish Husband and Wife 5 am sunrise 8 am 5 am Rise Milk cow, feed other animals 7 am Prepare breakfast and lunch pails for children Head to fields, season dictates activity Begin laundry Work in the kitchen garden, collecting food or pulling weeds 10 am sunrise 8 am Prepare lunch noon Preform household tasks such as ironing, baking, or sewing 11 am 1 pm 2 pm 2 pm 3 pm 3 pm Greet children returning from school 4 pm 5 pm 6 pm 7 pm Prepare dinner Return home, milk cows again sunset Perform quiet household tasks such as mending Horse The leading cause of horse and buggy accidents are due to worn out harnesses breaking. However, there are no recorded traffic accidents involving a horse powered vehicle. 4 pm 5 pm 7 pm The Amish arrange 1 sunset Retire Husband Steel Tires When passing another buggy on the roadway, it is best to practice caution. It can be considered offensive, both to the horse and buggy driver, to be passed. 6 pm Eat supper with family Personal time to deal with finances or quiet Bible study Amish Horse & Buggy with Corresponding Pennsylvania Traffic Laws PA law requires a reflective orange triangle to be placed on the back of all Buggies. However, many Old Order Amish feel that the emblems are materialistic, preferring only to use lanterns and reflective tape. noon Eat lunch, discuss farm happenings Head to town to buy and sell goods A Typical Slow Moving Vehicle Emblem 9 am 10 am 11 am Black Frame PA law requires slow moving vehicles to pull over to let faster moving traffic pass. PA law requires reflector tape on all seams of the buggy. Flashing lights (two on the front, two on the back) are used in addition to headlights are to be turned on at dusk. 7 am Breakfast and Bible study with family 9 am 1 pm Reflector Tape & Flashing Lights themselves into com5 Together Wife 1 16 1 93 1 36 1 Important Amish Events in North America K A C B 1920 1940 Amish begin The population A 1737 B 1920 C settling in North reaches 5,000 America, beginning with 50 families D 1940 - 1945 Some Amish men are affected by the U.S. Draft, only 60 enlist out of 772 1946 The Federal Government publicly urges Amish farmers to abandon horse-drawn farming and adopt tractors 1960 3 1 11 1 150,000 Sunday service, they travel to one another’s means that your neighbor across the street could attend a different church district G 1980 1990 than yourself. A typical Amish Church Districts Amish employees H 1988 working for Amish employers are rule exempt from Social Security tax by State in 2003 2000 I U.S. Draft laws 1972 U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of Amish ending education at the 8th grade level geographic location. For according to roads. This 50,000 1970 8 homes and are divided 1 100,000 The Amish begin to 1973 U.S. discontinued E 1966 discuss proposed changes to G the draft F 2 1 D 1950 375 49 5 0 1930 group has its own name, usually based in 7 8 200,000 H E 312 246 250,000 J I F 8 church districts. Each 51 66 40 pact groups known as J 1992 The population reaches 125,000 2000 The population reaches 221,000 Less than 20% of Amish K 2003 men under 65 earn their living solely by farming. district size contains 25 - 35 families. When a district reaches 40 or more families, they redraw district highest Amish populations IN 43,710 divisions. The largest OH 58,590 PA 59,350 district had 59 families under one bishop, a record set in 2006.