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The Union Village Shaker settlement was a community of Shakers founded at Turtle Creek, Ohio, in 1805. Early leaders sent out from the Shakers' central Ministry at New Lebanon, New York, included Elder David Darrow (1750-1825), who began evangelizing in 1805, and Eldress Ruth Farrington (1763-1821), who arrived in 1806 to help stabilize the new Shaker society.
This community, founded by the former residents of Gorham when that village closed, served as the North Family and Gathering Order of the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village. Drake's Creek , or the Mill Family, in Warren County, Kentucky , was a venture by the South Union, Kentucky , Shakers, to establish a water-powered mill some 16 miles removed ...
In 1806, a Shaker village, named Watervliet, after the New York town that was the site of the first Shaker settlement, was established in what is today Kettering, Ohio, surviving until 1900 when its remaining adherents joined the Union Village Shaker settlement. [14] In 1824, the Whitewater Shaker Settlement was established in southwestern Ohio.
North Union Shaker Site is a historic site in Shaker Heights, Ohio. The site was founded by Shakers in 1822 and was added to the National Register in 1974. The Shakers ran grist and grain mills from the lakes created when they dammed Doan Creek.
The Shaker Museum at South Union is a museum of Shaker history located at the site of the South Union Shaker Village in Auburn, Kentucky, United States.. The village was established by the Shakers in 1807 and closed in 1922.
Shirley Shaker Village closes down after 115 years of operation. The last recorded mention of the Shakers living in Philadelphia, 49 years after the community was founded there. [49] 1910. Pleasant Hill closes down after 105 years of operation. 1912. Union Shaker Village closes down after 107 years of operation. 1916
Located within the building is the Shaker Museum at South Union. South Union was one of 24 villages built up by the Shakers. During the village's 115-year history, the Shakers constructed over 200 buildings, worked 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) of farmland, and produced garden seed, fruit preserves, brooms, baskets, rugs, linen, hats, bonnets and silk ...
Union Village, Rhode Island; Union Village, Vermont; Union Village Shaker settlement; the former name for Greenwich (village), New York This page was last edited on ...