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  2. Shakers - Wikipedia

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    The Shaker Experience in America: A History of the United Society of Believers (Yale University Press, 1992), a standard scholarly history Wergland, Glendyne R. Visiting the Shakers, 1850–1899 . Clinton, N.Y.: Richard W. Couper Press, 2010.

  3. Shaker communities - Wikipedia

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    The first villages organized in Upstate New York and the New England states, and, through Shaker missionary efforts, Shaker communities appeared in the Midwestern states. Communities of Shakers were governed by area bishoprics and within the communities individuals were grouped into "family" units and worked together to manage daily activities.

  4. Watervliet Shaker Historic District - Wikipedia

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    Watervliet Shaker Historic District, in Colonie, New York, is the site of the first Shaker community, established in 1776. The primary Shaker community, the Mount Lebanon Shaker Society, was started a bit later. Watervliet's historic 1848 Shaker meetinghouse has been restored and is used for public events, such as concerts.

  5. Mount Lebanon Shaker Society - Wikipedia

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    Mount Lebanon's main building became a National Historic Landmark in 1965. [2] [8]Although the first of the Shaker settlements in the U.S. was in the Watervliet Shaker Historic District, Mount Lebanon became the leading Shaker society, and was the first to have a building used exclusively for religious purposes.

  6. Chronology of Shakers - Wikipedia

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    The chronology of Shakers is a list of important events pertaining to the history of the Shakers, a denomination of Christianity. Millenarians who believe that their founder, Ann Lee, experienced the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, the Shakers practice celibacy, confession of sin, communalism, ecstatic worship, pacifism, and egalitarianism.

  7. Canterbury Shaker Village - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  8. Enfield Shaker Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Enfield Shaker Museum is an outdoor history museum and historic district in Enfield, New Hampshire, in the United States. It is dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of the Shakers, a Protestant religious denomination, who lived on the site from 1793 to 1923. The museum features exhibitions, artifacts, eight Shaker buildings and ...

  9. Shaker furniture - Wikipedia

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    The plain style origins of shaker furniture connect back to the craft traditions of colonial New York and New England. The furniture brought into early Shaker society were the humble possessions of common people of the day such as farmers mechanics and small tradesman. In the 1790s the total membership of the United Society totaled a thousand.