Kentucky Shakers-Pa (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813108971)

In 1805, at the height of the period of early religious excitement in Kentucky, three members of the Shaker community in New Lebanon, New York, came to the Commonwealth of Kentucky to recruit converts. Soon there were little communities of Believers at Pleasant Hill in Mercer County and at South Union in Logan County. These settlements survived into the twentieth century as centers of worship and communal life; the buildings the Shakers erected here and many of their tools and artifacts remain t

Author: Julia Neal
ISBN-10: 0813108977
ISBN-13: 9780813108971
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/25/1996
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.45h x 5.39w x 0.42d