Holy Experiment: The Warwick River Mennonite Colony 1897-1970 Inspirational Packed with inspiring stories of

Packed with inspiring stories of how contemporary people and groups are caring for the land and each other

and adapted the interiors to 21st century living with minimal compromise to the original structures

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Holy Experiment: The Warwick River Mennonite Colony 1897-1970 Inspirational Packed with inspiring stories ofIn 1897, Mennonite and Amish families from northern and western states began to relocate to former plantation land in Southeastern Virginia along the banks of the Warwick River. Their move to these 1,000 acres was part of a larger, though little known, movement in the Mennonite Church in the late nineteenth century to settle church colonies in the post Civil War South. By developing the depleted soils of former plantations into successful farms and