Hancock Shaker Village
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- Buildings were designed for efficiency, according to their purpose and use. No extra materials or time were wasted in their
- Shaker Historic Trail -- National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service www.?
- The Round stone barn is the only one of its kind. It was built in 1826. The circular design was a model of efficiency for Shakers and non-Shakers such as farmers and progressive thinkers like Hawthorne and Melville.
- Shaker Historic Trail -- National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service www.?
- Located in Pittsfield, MA
- Hancock Shaker Village -- Shaker Historic Trail -- National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service www.?
- The first Shakers appeared in Manchester, England in 1747.
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- They called themselves the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, but others called "Shakering Quakers" because of they trembled and shook during their worship services in order to rid themselves of vil). "Shaking Quaker
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- They were "millennialists" who believed that their leader, Ann Lee, embodied the second coming of Christ Mother Ann).
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- They were persecuted in England because of their extreme religious practice, so in 1774 Mother Ann led them to America for religious freedom.
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- Shakers believed in racial and gender equality, simplicity and pacifism. They dedicated their lives to creating heaven on earth.
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- At its largest,in the mid 1899's,the Shaker population was 4-5000. Today only one community is left at Sabbath Day Lake, Maine.
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- Hancock Shaker village was called the "City of Peace."
- Shakerworkshops.com/Shaker-villages-and-museums/hancock-shaker-.htm.
- Shakers were the most successful, longest lasting communitarian society.
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- As they tried to create their version of heaven of earth they applied the virtues of simplicity, purity and perfection to their work and to themselves.
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- Membership peaked before Civil War when religious revivals brought a lot of new people to Shakers. These revivals died out toward the end of the century and membership began to decrease.
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- Hancock closed in 1960
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- A five-story brick building housed almost 100 communityi members in the 1830s and 1840s. It contained a huge kitchen, where teams of four to six Sisters worked in one-month shifts; common rooms, bedrooms or “retiring†rooms, sewing rooms, an infirmar
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- Shakers began as the Wardley Society that had left the Quakers and the Church of England.
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- The Shaker "families" ranged in size from 50 to 150 people.
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- The Trustees or “office deacons†were those Shaker men and women appointed Trustees or "Office Deacons" to care for the property and financial affairs and oversee the trade of the community.
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