The grumbling surfaced not long after the first Amish families moved to this sparsely populated farm region in the northeast corner of the state about a decade ago.
Word spread that these Pennsylvania Dutch-speaking newcomers hated the government, didn't pay taxes, and wouldn't fight in a war. And then there were the whispers about intermarriage and suspicions of incest.
"People didn't think too much of them the first few years," said Robert Aldridge, the county's presiding commissioner.
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