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The Enfield Shaker community was the only Shaker settlement in Connecticut (others were in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky) and was significant for its garden-seed business. The Enfield settlement, was founded in the 1780s, and lasted until 1917.
Shaker families were groups of followers within Shaker communities. The leading group in each village was the Church Family, and it was surrounded by satellite families that were often named for points on the compass rose. Each village was governed by a leadership team consisting of two men (Elders) and two women (Eldresses).
Hancock Shaker Village is a former Shaker commune in Hancock and Pittsfield, Massachusetts. It emerged in the towns of Hancock, Pittsfield, and Richmond in the 1780s, organized in 1790, and was active until 1960. It was the third of nineteen major Shaker villages established between 1774 and 1836 in New York, New England, Kentucky, Ohio and ...
Bunker Hill lies northwest of downtown Waterbury. It borders Watertown to the north and the Waterville and Robinwood neighborhoods to the east and south. The Bunker Hill area is accessed by the Route 8 Expressway and CT RT-63.
Gender, Family, and Community among the Harvard and Shirley Shakers, 1781–1918. Syracuse University Press, 2002. pp. 262. Thurman, Suzanne. "'No idle hands are seen': The Social Construction of Work in Shaker Society." Communal Societies. Volume 18 (1998): 36–52. Wergland, Glendyne R. Sisters in the Faith: Shaker Women and Equality of the ...
Shaker box-maker Ricardo Belden (Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1935) Round Stone Barn, Hancock Shaker Village, Massachusetts, 2004 Shaker Anodyne bottle; Enfield Shaker Village; late 19th century; H-4, W-1.625, D-1 inches; Enfield Shaker Museum Onion field; Enfield Shaker Village; Enfield, New Hampshire; 1897; by F. C. Churchill; Enfield Shaker Museum
The Watertown History Museum formerly known as the Watertown Historical Society is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the social, commercial and cultural heritage of Watertown, Connecticut. Through its museum galleries, historic house tours, lecture series and archival collection, the society has traced and recorded the history of ...
Watertown is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The town is part of the Naugatuck Valley Planning Region. The population was 22,105 at the 2020 census. [1] The ZIP Codes for Watertown are 06795 (for most of the town) and 06779 (for the Oakville section). It is a suburb of Waterbury.