The town of **Sugarcreek**, located on the eastern edge of Holmes County, is widely known as “The Little Switzerland of Ohio.” This region highlights the deep ancestral roots connecting local Amish and Mennonite families to their 16th-century Swiss origins.
The Legacy of Swiss Cheese Factories
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Swiss immigrant cheesemakers partnered with local Amish dairy farmers. Fresh milk delivered daily by horse and wagon was processed into high-quality Swiss cheese wheels using traditional copper kettles.
Sugarcreek Today
Today, Sugarcreek celebrates this joint heritage with alpine architecture, the world’s largest cuckoo clock, and major commercial cheese plants (such as Guggisberg Cheese, creator of Baby Swiss) that rely on milk from hundreds of surrounding Amish farmsteads.