According to Retting, people came the Amana Colonies for tourism even in the early 1900s. “(There would be) trainloads of people coming from Cedar Rapids and Iowa City to see this different ...

The Iowa Amana Colonies were established a few years later in 1855. From that time until 1932, the Colonies held to communal practices, to collectivism. In 1932, under severe economic pressures ...

Willkommen to the Amana Colonies, the picturesque villages established by German settlers in the 19th century in Eastern Iowa. Once seven villages that practiced a communal lifestyle, the Amana ...

Nestled among the scenic byways of the Iowa River lie seven villages where ... Community of True Inspiration — the Amana Colonies provide a glimpse into a communal way of life that lasted ...

Iowa’s Amana Colonies are not Amish! Come meet the past while enjoying right now. Iowa’s Amana Colonies lived communally until 1932. Today their innovative past and welcoming hospitality draw ...

In the summer of 1890, Bertha Horack, a nineteen-year-old University of Iowa student, set out to photograph the Amana Colonies, the utopian religious community twenty miles northwest that she had ...

It’s among the businesses newer to Amana, the seven historic villages in eastern Iowa that attract locals ... stopped into businesses in the Amana Colonies to hear from employees about what ...

The German tradition of making sausages is making its way back to the Amana Colonies.Kate Senneff, Event Coordinator for the Wurst Festival joined Iowa's News ...

Known as America's favorite pastime, the sport of baseball was once believed to be one the Amana Colonies' greatest challenges. Founded in 1855, the Amana Colonies in southeast Iowa were dedicated ...

The Amana Colonies will host two simultaneous festivals ... says they’re bringing in brass bands — from Iowa and four surrounding states — that will compete in a European-style musical ...