Amana, IA
The Amana Colonies are seven villages on 26,000 acres 110 km2 located in Iowa County in east-central Iowa, United States: Amana or Main Amana, German: Haupt-Amana, East Amana, High Amana, Middle Amana, South Amana, West Amana, and Homestead. The villages were built and settled by German Radical Pietists, who were persecuted in their homeland by the German state government and the Lutheran Church. Calling themselves the True Inspiration Congregations German: Wahre Inspirations-Gemeinden, they first settled in New York near Buffalo in what is now the town of West Seneca. Source: Wikipedia