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The Ephrata Cloister or Ephrata Community was a religious community, established in 1732 by Johann Conrad Beissel at Ephrata, in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The grounds of the community are now owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and are administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission .
The settlement grew as other settlers arrived from Ephrata in 1748, however within a few years residents started returning to Pennsylvania, discouraged by the harsh winters, isolation and growing tension with Native Americans in the area, [8] who would steal corn from their fields at harvest time, leaving them with little food for the winter.
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Israel Eckerlin heard Beissel speak and was baptized in 1728. He and his brothers moved to the Ephrata Cloister in 1729. By the early 1740s, the Eckerlins had become community leaders and decided to make the community self-sufficient by planting an orchard, building a mill and starting a workshop for the manufacture of cloth.
Ephrata Cloister: Lancaster County: PA 1732 Religious Last surviving resident of the Ephrata Cloister religious community died on July 27, 2008, at the age of 98. Pratt House: Essex: CT 1732 Residential Nehemiah Royce House: Wallingford: CT 1734 Residential A typical saltbox, this house was visited by George Washington in 1775. Quackenbush ...
Ephrata and Warwick Township: 48: Ann Cunningham Evans House: Ann Cunningham Evans House: May 9, 2002 : 6132 Twenty-eighth Division Highway: Caernarvon Township: 49: Flat Car No. 473567: Flat Car No. 473567: December 17, 1979
Between 1734 and 1741, Weiser became a follower of Conrad Beissel, a German Baptist preacher and musician who founded what became known as the Ephrata Cloister, a Protestant monastic settlement in the Ephrata Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Most people were encouraged to be celibate, although there were also married couples at the ...