| The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000. |
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| Amana or Amana Society, collective name of 7 small communities, on both sides of Iowa R., c.20 mi/32 km WNW of Iowa City. Agr. (vegetable, fruit) and livestock (sheep, hogs, cattle, poultry); mfg. (woolen textiles, furniture, machinery, prepared foods, feed). The first village, Amana, was settled 1855 by members of the Community of True Inspiration, a Ger. religious sect. By 1861 they had laid out 5 more villages—East Amana, West Amana, High Amana, Middle Amana, South Amana—and had purchased Homestead. Settlers developed a successful communal way of life. Society was made a cooperative corporation, with separation of religious and economic administration, in 1932. The quaint villages, where craft culture has been preserved through the Amanite pattern of economic self-sufficiency, attract many visitors. |
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