Holy Experiment: The Warwick River Mennonite Colony 1897-1970 Inspirational Thierwechter

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Gloriæ Dei Cantores celebrates the rich contribution of Spanish music and culture to the world

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and the artistic tradition they passed on to their students

Holy Experiment: The Warwick River Mennonite Colony 1897-1970 Inspirational ThierwechterIn 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