Founded in 1793, Shaker Village was the ninth of the original Shaker communities established in the U.S. At its peak around 1850, some 300 Shakers lived, worked, and worshipped here, practicing equality of the sexes, celibacy, pacifism, racial equality, and communal ownership of property. This self-contained community farmed 3,000 acres and maintained more than 50 buildings along four miles of highway. Surviving Shaker buildings include the 1837 Great Stone Dwelling, one of the largest Shaker structures ever built. The Shakers left Enfield in 1923.

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Enfield, New Hampshire · USA