View source for Newaygo County Old Order Amish Settlement (Newaygo County, Michigan, USA)

The Newaygo County [[Old Order Amish|Amish]] settlement in [[Michigan (State)|Michigan]] is now extinct. A group of Old Order Amish began to settle about seven miles (11 km) north of White Cloud, Michigan, on the banks of Diamond Loch Lake in 1895, including Manasses D. Schmucker and Samuel Yoder, who purchased an old sawmill and produced lumber from which many of the dwellings of the oncoming settlers were built. Other early Amish settlers were Daniel Miller, a minister from [[Lagrange County (Indiana, USA)|Lagrange County]], [[Indiana (USA)|Indiana]], Dave Yoder of Elkhart County, Indiana, John Fry and Samuel Miller from [[Ohio (State)|Ohio]]. Newcomers purchased land northeast of White Cloud. Names characteristic of the settlement were [[Kauffman (Kaufman, Kaufmann, Kauffmann, Coffman, Cauffman) family|Kauffman]], [[Hostetler (Hostetter, Hochstetler, and many other variations)|Hochstetler]], Stutzman, [[Troyer (Treyer, Treier, Dreier)|Troyer]], Chupp, and Schrock. Gradually all the ministers and many others left. A number of Amish families joined the [[Union Mennonite Church (White Cloud, Michigan, USA)|Union Mennonite Church]] in White Cloud.
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