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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 ...
The museum exhibits Shaker objects from its collections alongside modern and contemporary artwork, furniture, and photography. Historically, the New Lebanon Shaker Village was the home of Lucy Wright , head of the Shaker ministry 1796–1821, Isaac N. Youngs , who lived there 1807–1865, and Issachar Bates , a notable Shaker missionary who ...
Félicien Rops, A Shaker Pianist (1888), etching (16.99 × 11.75 cm; 6 3 ⁄ 4" × 4 3 ⁄ 4 "), Los Angeles County Museum of Art. For a Shaker Seminar held in Massachusetts in 1981, composer Roger Lee Hall wrote a pageant of original Shaker poetry and music titled, "The Humble Heart", featuring singing and dancing by "The New English Song and ...
The Enfield Shaker community was the only Shaker settlement in Connecticut (others were in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky) and was significant for its garden-seed business. The Enfield settlement, was founded in the 1780s, and lasted until 1917.
The Sabbathday Lake Shaker Museum is the largest repository of Maine Shaker culture. Examples of furniture, oval boxes, woodenware, metal and tin wares, technology and tools, "fancy" sales goods, costume and textiles, visual arts, and herbal and medicinal products are among the 13,000 artifacts currently in the Sabbathday Lake collection.
One man's attempt to build a Shaker community in Windsor stretched over 400 acres of land and included several successful businesses.
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 museum is located in the 1824 Centre Family dwelling, an 1824 40-room Centre House, filled with original artifacts exemplifying the Shakers' craftsmanship and unique way of life. The museum is on the South Union Shakertown Historic Trail, included in the US National Register of Historic Places. [2]