Kentucky Shakers-Pa

by Julia Neal

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813108977
• ISBN13: 9780813108971
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"