MIDDLE AMANA, Ia. — A private utility providing water to 850 customers in the Amana Colonies has stopped using three wells because tests show a nitrate level above federal safety standards.

KCRG reports the Amana Colonies harken back to an earlier time, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors in a typical year, and with them, millions of dollars in revenue. “People come here.

AMANA — Visit the Amana Colonies this month for the Ninth Annual Scare Crow Trail, organized through Schanz Furniture & Refinishing in South Amana. Throughout the villages of Middle Amana, High ...

Amana Colonies water customers were alerted last month a Dec. 2 test showed the nitrate level in part of its water system was above safe standards for drinking. The Amana Society Service Co. still ...

Willkommen to the Amana Colonies, the picturesque villages established by German settlers in the 19th century in Eastern Iowa.. Once seven villages that practiced a communal lifestyle, the Amana ...

Jeff Popenhagen wants those who come to the Amana Colonies to stay longer, and he's pretty confident Hotel Millwright is exactly the way to do it. "We used a preservation strategy many historic ...

Prestele arrived in Amana in 1858 and planted a garden of different plants and trees. Based on photographs, the last surviving tree was probably one of the subspecies of the black pine (Pinus ...

“The goal of our event is to share the gardening and flower gardening heritage of the Amana Colonies,” Childers says. “Every year, we have anywhere from seven to maybe 12 gardens.