Amish Landscapes: Houses and Barns

What is distinctive about this Old Order Amish farmstead? Note at least three things:

Answers:
1) windmill (the Old Order Amish don't use electricity);
2) dairy cows (labor intensive agriculture encourages large families);
3) forebay barns are distinctive to Pennsylvania, where the Amish originally settled and spread to the rest of the U.S.

 

Created by Ingolf Vogeler on 1 February 1996;last revised on 06 April 2005.