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Old Economy Village is an historic settlement that is located in Ambridge, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States. Administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission , it lies on the banks of the Ohio River and is surrounded by downtown Ambridge.
Old Economy Village, 270 16th Street, Ambridge. Old Economy Village celebrates the bicentennial of the Harmony Society establishing the town of Economy in 1824.
Ambridge is the home of Old Economy Village, a National Historic Landmark administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. The site interprets the Harmony Society, one of America's most successful 19th century Christian communal societies. Old Economy Village also provides public education and preservation of the society's ...
The public will be able to hear the chiming bell sounds that Old Economy Village founders, The Harmonists, first heard in the 19th century. Ambridge's historic bell tower shall ring out again.
Ambridge Commercial Historic District: August 13, 2020 ... Old Economy Village roughly bounded by Pennsylvania Route 65 and 12th, Merchant, and 16th Streets
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The society settled in what is now Ambridge, five miles (8 km) up the Ohio River. One of the reasons the society left Indiana was because of harassment for their abolitionist activities. Their settlement was in Beaver County, along the Ohio River. There they founded "Ökonomie", now better known as Old Economy Village. Here, the Society gained ...
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