North of the state line, a unique shop welcomes visitors with the promise of homemade pie and handcrafted goods.

The barn-style exterior and buggy parking create an idyllic roadside stop along the Jefferson Highway.

♪♪ We try to make it as unique as we can and find as many local handcrafted items as we can.

And that may be within the Amish community, but also just our own local artists here in town.

We have a lot of bakery items, cinnamon rolls.

We also have furniture.

We have bedroom sets, beautiful handcrafted tables.

We have toys, home decor.

We also have some Amish candy, some pies.

Kohlsdorf: Owned and operated by siblings Jeremy Sellars and Jennifer Warrington, the Amish Country Store was opened in 2009 by their mother.

The merchandise filling their shelves is made available thanks to the relationships their family has created with Amish craftsmen and -women in the region.

It's a shopping experience that blends old-world charm with today's trends.

We have people who supply us with our barn quilts and we also get the handmade quilts.

We have baskets and even handmade dolls.

Sellars: We write letters back and forth because some of our Amish are pretty far away.

Some are 2 or 3 hours away.

It's easier if I go pick them up versus them trying to get up here.

Kohlsdorf: The store's connection to Iowa's roots extends to the diner counter, which dishes out nostalgia in the form of Maid-Rites.

A lot of people have a real historic tie to Maid-Rite, whether it was their parents that introduced them to Maid-Rite, or maybe when they were a young child.

There's a lot of memories tied to Maid-Rite.

Tourists with a taste for tradition revel in the chance to take a bite out of this Midwestern staple.

We get a lot of people that haven't had a Maid-Rite maybe 10 to 15 years...

Thank you.

...that have moved outside of Iowa.

And so when they come back, they see that, and they get actually very excited about it.

The Amish Country Store is an authentically Iowan oasis, welcoming travelers to the heartland with a place to shop, eat, and take a break from the road.

You can see things you don't typically see at a regular department store.

I think it's the artistry we have inside.

It's the nice, homey feeling you get when you come in here.

We have people that are regulars from Texas and Minnesota.

I don't know.

I don't know if there's a sense of family here, if they can feel the sense of family when they walk in the door, but they walk in the door and they smell cinnamon rolls baking, then they might see the Amish bring in their baskets, and you just don't see that everywhere.