Hutterites are a branch of Anabaptists, who, like the Amish and Mennonites, trace their North American roots to Europe’s Radical Reformation of the 16th century.
Hutterites have at least two major distinctions from Amish and Mennonites. They live and work in colonies, which function as a large commercial organization. Also, the first Amish and Mennonites in North America settled in the Mid-Atlantic, due the region’s climate, which resembled their homeland in central Europe.