Mount Joy (Pennsylvania, USA)

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Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, a town (1957 pop. 3,600; 2000 pop. 6,765) located in a fertile and prosperous farming area on the Lancaster-Harrisburg Pike, 13 miles (20 km) west of Lancaster, was settled in 1735 by Scottish-Irish immigrants from Mountjoy, Donegal, Ireland. The Heistands and Nissleys, Mennonites, had settled there by 1750. Swiss Mennonites claimed the lands back from the highway, but gradually also obtained those over the highway from the Scottish-Irish. By the twentieth century the Swiss had also come into town. A large Mennonite congregation (Mennonite Church), called Mount Joy, with 394 in 1956 members, worshiped in the town, and numerous other congregations surrounded it.


Author(s) Ira D Landis
Date Published 1957

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Landis, Ira D. "Mount Joy (Pennsylvania, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1957. Web. 21 Nov 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Mount_Joy_(Pennsylvania,_USA)&oldid=170301.

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Landis, Ira D. (1957). Mount Joy (Pennsylvania, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 21 November 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Mount_Joy_(Pennsylvania,_USA)&oldid=170301.



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Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, p. 759. All rights reserved.


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