In yearly Pennsylvania tradition, Amish communities hold spring auctions to support fire departments
March 17, 2024
GORDONVILLE, PA — A couple of hundred used buggies — horses not included — were lined up and ready for the auctioneer’s gavel last weekend when day began at the Gordonville mud sale, a local Amish tradition dating to the 1960s.
Mud sales are country auctions that benefit volunteer fire departments across what the Amish community refers to as the Lancaster settlement, located some 70 miles west of Philadelphia where the devout Christian group began to settle about 300 years ago.
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