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The Harmony Society was founded in what is now Germany in 1785 by Johann Georg Rapp. Meeting with opposition from the dominant Lutheran Church, Rapp and his followers emigrated to North America, and purchased the land in Butler County where the community of 200 families founded Harmony in 1805.
Location of Beaver County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Beaver County, Pennsylvania.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States.
The Harmony Forge Mansion is an historic home and property which is located in Bellefonte, Centre County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [ 1 ]
The Harmony Society was a Christian theosophy and pietist society founded in Iptingen, Germany, in 1785.Due to religious persecution by the Lutheran Church and the government in Württemberg, [3] the Harmony Society moved to the United States between 1803 and 1804, initially purchasing 3,000 acres (12 km 2) of land in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
Welkom officially came into being on 15 April 1947, six years after the first mining lease in the area was awarded to the St Helena Gold Mining Company, and was proclaimed a town on 23 July 1948. On 14 February 1968, after 21 years of existence, Welkom received city status, and celebrated this event with the opening of the Civic Centre by Mrs ...
Still extant is an old Mennonite meeting house on a hill near Harmony that was built in 1825. Harmony's history, particularly that of the Harmony Society, is preserved at the Harmony Museum, operated in the town by Historic Harmony, Inc. On a hill in Harmony, situated above Connoquenessing Creek sits a "seat" of stone (actually a rock formation ...
The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) reported late on 22 June 2023 that the miners had died in a mining shaft at the abandoned Virginia mine in Welkom, Free State. [7] [8] [6] [9] The miners, believed to be foreign nationals from Lesotho who were there mining illegally, may have died on or around 18 May 2023. [10] [3] [9]
The first mine at Herminie, known as the "Ocean No. 1 Mine," was opened in 1893 by Berwind-White Coal Company, of which Ocean Coal Company was a subsidiary. Fifty double houses were built for miners, plus five single-family houses for managers on Church Street. By 1900, the mine employed 271 people. [1] Herminie was the scene of two major strikes.