Editing Oakland, Maryland (section)

===Amish community===
The Oakland area is home to an [[Amish]] community that consists of a church district of about 70 homes. The Amish community dates back to 1850 and became associated with the [[New Order Amish]], with electricity permitted inside of homes.<ref name=amishamerica>{{cite web|title=Maryland Amish|date=March 2011 |publisher=Amish America|url=http://amishamerica.com/maryland-amish/|access-date=October 6, 2017}}</ref> The Amish community in Oakland has a small number of [[Religious conversion|converts]] to the Amish faith, a rarity in the Amish world. There are only between 150 and 200 Amish converts in the United States out of a population around 200,000. The Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Amish have had only one successful convert in over 100 years.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/07/amish-converts-maryland-oldest-settlement |title=Amish converts choosing their religion and building roots in oldest settlement |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=August 29, 2018}}</ref>