Information & history on rear of plaques:

01-411 Gerber's Feed Mill, County Feed Mill, Wayne/Holmes County, Ohio.   Feed mills and grain elevators are centrally located in the agricultural community, essential to the area farmer for the storage, processing, and milling of grain such as soybeans and corn, wheat and durum.  They are also suppliers of grain, fertilizer, chemicals, equipment, and feed, including bird seed.  The mill will custom blend feed to the farmer's specifications for his livestock whether it is to feed hogs, cows, horses, chickens, sheep, and even the family pets.  Faline changed name after 1150 pieces were sold.

01-412 Der Bake Haus, Holmes/Wayne County, OH.   Loaves of bread or dinner rolls, white and whole wheat, are stacked up on the shelves of any Amish bakery.  Lined along the countertop may be found doughnuts, cookies, and pies of all kinds: fruit pies, custard, peanut butter and butterscotch, apple crumb, oatmeal and raisin or shoofly.  Bakeries often sell bulk baking supplies such as bags of chocolate chips or 10 lb. bags of fine flour for the lightest, flakiest of crusts.

01-413 Yoder's Oak Furniture, Wayne/Holmes County, Ohio.   The crafts of the Amish are as traditional as their life style.  Quilt shops are a main attraction.  Amish women today favor prints rather than the solid color geometrics of their grandmothers, and most quilt shops offer an exciting selection of fabrics.  Amish men excel in carpentry and furniture building such as their trademark willow-bent rocking chairs.  Every child wants an Amish-made wooden wagon with rubber tires, sometimes painted red, sometimes green.

01-414 Auction Barn, Holmes/Wayne County, OH.   The Amish come into town on a regular day each week to take care of business at the Auction Barn.  They buy and sell livestock along with some supplies like hay and straw year round.  Special auctions are also held for work horses or buggy horses (which usually come from the race tracks).  These auctions and the less frequent horse-drawn machinery auctions are important also as social gatherings for Amish men and their sons.