Nappanee (Indiana, USA) Nappanee, Indiana (pop. 3,800 in 1955;
about 6,700 in 2000) is located in the southwestern part of
Elkhart County in a fertile section of farming land. It has been
a collection center for the Brethren Service Relief and the
location of Evangel Press, the Brethren in Christ publishing
house. Of the 13 churches within the city in the 1950s, three
were Mennonite, namely, North Main St. (Mennonite Church), First
Mennonite (General Conference Mennonite), and United Missionary.
The first Mennonites to settle in Locke and Union townships in
which Nappanee is located came about 1857-1860. There were also
two churches of the Conservative Mennonites and nine districts
of Old Order Amish in the territory surrounding Nappanee.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia,
and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, p.
812. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the
encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website. ©1996-2013 by the
Global Anabaptist Mennonite