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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 ...
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.
Canterbury Shaker Village. June 17, 1975 4 mi (6.4 km) east of Canterbury on Shaker Rd. ... NH 103A, 2.2 mi (3.5 km) north of its junction with NH 103 Newbury: Former ...
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: Canterbury: Merrimack: Merrimack Valley: Open-air: Includes 25 original and four reconstructed Shaker buildings on 694 acres (2.81 km 2) Carey House: Milford: Hillsborough: Merrimack Valley: Historic house: website, home of the Milford Historical Society Castle in the Clouds: Moultonborough: Carroll: Lakes Region ...
“We’re all one city,” said Shaker Village President Jodi-Ann Reid. The 1973-era community’s clubhouse, which was more than 4,000 square feet, was appraised at about $1.25 million. But city ...
Arthur W. Dowe, from Canterbury Shaker Village, operated a mission in San Francisco for several years in the early- and mid-1890s at 948 Mission Street. [40] A small urban community of Shakers persisted in the city until the 1906 earthquake and ensuing fire . [ 41 ]
Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come, walking right into a deadly ambush. Here’s Nick, pausing in a lull.