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Canterbury Shaker Village is an internationally known, non-profit museum and historic site with 25 original Shaker buildings, four reconstructed Shaker buildings and 694 acres (2.81 km 2) of forests, fields, gardens and mill ponds under permanent conservation easement. Canterbury Shaker Village "is dedicated to preserving the 200-year legacy of ...
Three of the sites—Canterbury Shaker Village, Harrisville Historic District, and the MacDowell Colony—are categorized as National Historic Landmark Districts. One site, the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial, is categorized as a National Historical Park.
Canterbury Shaker Village. June 17, 1975 4 mi (6.4 km) east of Canterbury on Shaker Rd. ... Pleasant View Home: Pleasant View Home. September 19, 1984 : 227 Pleasant ...
The biggest attraction in Canterbury is the Shaker Village, established in 1792. At its peak in the 1850s, over 300 people lived, worked and worshiped in 100 buildings on 4,000 acres (16 km 2). They made their living by farming, selling seeds, herbs and herbal medicines; and by manufacturing textiles, pails, brooms and other products.
The Shaker Shed, an unornamented structure, originally served Canterbury Shaker Village, a large Shaker community in Canterbury, New Hampshire.Dubbed "Shakers" because of the frenetic dancing involved in their worship service, their religious sect was formally known as the United Society of Believers in the First and Second Appearance of Christ.
Her mother died when Durgin was eight, at which point she and her brother were adopted by Asa and Abigail Bean, her uncle and aunt. Dorothy and Henry were admitted to the Canterbury Shaker Village on July 13, 1834. [2] She was instructed by Mary Whitcher in the Shaker women's school. [3] Durgin was a teacher at the Shaker School from 1846 to 1852.
The museum is open 7 days a week, offering tours of the site, [7] [13] and offers overnight stays in the original Shaker bedrooms of the Great Stone Dwelling. [14] There are 13 remaining Shaker village buildings and gardens on 28 acres, which can be seen during a self-guided walking tour. [8] The village museum is owned by the state of New ...
This list of museums in New Hampshire is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.