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Shaker Historical Society and Museum

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Shaker Historical Society and Museum
Shaker Historical Society and Museum
Shaker Historical Society and Museum
Shaker Historical Society and Museum
Shaker Historical Society and Museum
Shaker Historical Society and Museum
Shaker Historical Society and Museum
Shaker Historical Society and Museum
Shaker Historical Society and Museum
Shaker Historical Society and Museum
Shaker Historical Society and Museum
Shaker Historical Society and Museum
Shaker Historical Society and Museum
Shaker Historical Society and Museum
Shaker Historical Society and Museum
Shaker Historical Society and Museum
Shaker Historical Society and Museum
Shaker Historical Society and Museum
Shaker Historical Society and Museum
Shaker Historical Society and Museum
Shaker Historical Society and Museum
Shaker Historical Society and Museum
Shaker Historical Society and Museum
Shaker Historical Society and Museum
Shaker Historical Society and Museum
Phone:
+1 216-921-1201

Hours:
Sunday2pm - 5pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday11am - 5pm
Wednesday11am - 5pm
Thursday11am - 5pm
Friday11am - 5pm
SaturdayClosed


Template:Shakers After the Shakers arrived in the United States in 1774, they established numerous communities in the late-18th century through the entire 19th century. The first villages organized in Upstate New York and the New England states, and, through Shaker missionary efforts, Shaker communities appeared in the Midwestern states. Communities of Shakers were governed by area bishoprics and within the communities individuals were grouped into family units and worked together to manage daily activities. By 1836 eighteen major, long-term societies were founded, comprising some sixty families, and many smaller, short-lived communities were established over the course of the 19th century, including two failed ventures into the Southeastern United States and an urban community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Shakers peaked in population by the early 1850s. With the turmoil of the American Civil War and subsequent Industrial Revolution, Shakerism went into severe decline, and as the number of living Shakers diminished, Shaker villages ceased to exist. Some of their buildings and sites have become museums, and many are historic districts under the National Register of Historic Places. The only active community is Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in Maine.
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