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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.
New Hampshire currently has 24 National Historic Landmarks; the most recent addition was Lucknow (Castle in the Clouds) in Moultonborough added in 2024. [1] Three of the sites—Canterbury Shaker Village, Harrisville Historic District, and the MacDowell Colony—are categorized as National Historic Landmark Districts.
Canterbury Shaker Village: Holy Ground: Canterbury: Canterbury: New Hampshire: 1792–1992 [12] NRHP [11] New Enfield Shaker Village: Chosen Vale: Canterbury: Enfield: New Hampshire: 1793–1923 [13] NRHP [11] Old Enfield Shaker Village: City of Union: Hancock: Enfield: Connecticut: 1792–1917 [14] NRHP [11] Gorham Shaker Village: Union Branch ...
In 1923, they closed the Enfield Shaker village and moved to the Canterbury community in central New Hampshire. [12] Much of the village property was sold in 1927 to the La Salettes. [7] The site is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places as the Enfield Shaker Historic District. [1]
Shaker Village may refer to: Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, home of Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill; Shaker Village (Sabbathday Lake, Maine) Hancock Shaker Village, Hancock, Massachusetts; Harvard Shaker Village Historic District, Harvard, Massachusetts; Shirley Shaker Village, Shirley, Massachusetts; Canterbury Shaker Village, Canterbury, New Hampshire
Location of Merrimack County in New Hampshire. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Merrimack County, New Hampshire.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States.
Ethel Hudson (June 4, 1896, Salem, Massachusetts – September 7, 1992, Concord, New Hampshire) was the last surviving member of the Canterbury Shaker Village in New Hampshire. [1] Ethel Hudson was 11 years old when, in 1907, she and her older sister, Elizabeth, left a broken home in Salem, Massachusetts, and traveled by train and horse-drawn ...