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South Family Building, Harvard Shaker Village, Massachusetts James E. Irving (1818-1901), Photograph of a group of Shakers - single image Trustees Office, Shakertown, Pleasant Hill, Kentucky The Shakers are a sect of Christianity which practices celibacy, communal living, confession of sin, egalitarianism, and pacifism.
The Whitewater Shaker Settlement (also known as White Water Shaker Village) is a former Shaker settlement near New Haven in Crosby Township, Ohio, United States. [1] Established in 1824 and closed in 1916, [ 2 ] it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 as a historic district .
Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, USA, is the site of a Shaker religious community that was active from 1805 to 1910. Following a preservationist effort that began in 1961, the site, now a National Historic Landmark, has become a popular tourist destination.
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 Best of Shaker Cooking. Magnolia, Massachusetts: Peter Smith Publishing. ISBN 9780844660318. OCLC 89096. Miller, Amy Bess Williams (1984). Hancock Shaker Village: The City of Peace; An Effort to Restore a Vision 1960—1985. Hancock: Hancock Shaker Village. ISBN 9780961355500. OCLC 247618813. Miller, Amy Bess (1998).
“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 ...
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.
Church Family Trustees' Office with carriage in front; ca. 1890; Enfield Shaker Village, New Hampshire; Enfield Shaker Museum. The Shakers, or United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, settled on the site in 1793 [5] along Lake Mascoma on up to 1,200 acres (490 ha).