The Mount Lebanon Shaker Village is a historic site associated with the

Shakers The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, more commonly known as the Shakers, are a Millenarianism, millenarian Restorationism, restorationist Christianity, Christian sect founded in England and then organized in the Unit ...

, a Protestant religious denomination. Founded as a communal group in the 1787, the Shakers located their Central Ministry in New Lebanon,

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, United States, and built a village that eventually covered several thousand acres and housed hundreds of Believers. (See also

Mount Lebanon Shaker Society Mount Lebanon Shaker Society, also known as New Lebanon Shaker Society, was a communal settlement of Shakers in New Lebanon, New York, New Lebanon, New York. The earliest converts began to "gather in" at that location in 1782 and built their firs ...

and Isaac N. Youngs.) Shaker Museum , Mount Lebanon is moving from

Old Chatham, New York Old Chatham is a hamlet in the northeastern quadrant of the town of Chatham, located in Columbia County, New York, United States. It is one of the earliest settlements in the town and was originally named Chatham. The center of Old Chatham ...

to the Mount Lebanon Shaker Village.Shaker Museum and Library website
They are in the process of restoring the buildings of the former Shaker North Family there.

References

External links

Shaker Museum , Mount Lebanon
website for the North Family historic site's managing museum.

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