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    Home » Everything Amish » Plain Culture

    Valley of the Brethren, Usually Placid, But Not This Day....

    Published: Feb 27, 2018 · Updated: Feb 27, 2018 by Kevin Williams | Leave a Comment

    By Kevin Williams

    Twin Creek in Ohio meanders 46.2 miles from its humble origins as a series of farm-field rivulets near the town of Castine and empties later int he Great Miami River near Franklin.   Most of the time it's a pretty placid creek that lends itself well to hiking and kayaking.  I went tubing down the creek one spring, and it was so much fun.

    The Lower Twin Old German Baptist Brethren Church.

    Twin Creek also is a very important landmark and geographical region for the Old Order German Baptist Brethren, a Plain sect that shares many similarities to the Amish.   In the Twin Creek watershed there is an Upper Twin church district and a Lower Twin, and a Church of the Brethren in Castine near the creek's watershed.

    Twin Creek, again, is normally such a pleasant, calm creek but, wow, it was anything but the other day after inches and inches of rain clobbered our part of Ohio.  Take a look!

    DRAMATIC WHIRLPOOL:  Geez, I'd not want to be kayaking near this!

    NEAR THE DAM:  A flood control project initiated during the Great Depression put a dam in the Twin Creek near Germantown. Usually water just steadily, slowly flows out from the dam. Not on this day. Click here!

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