Touring Shaker country
Photo: (WT-shared) SHC 05 November 2006, CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons
Touring Shaker country takes you to one current and eleven former Shaker communities in the Mid-Atlantic, New England and Midwest regions of the United States.
UnderstandThe United Society of Believers, known as Shaking Quakers, or simply as Shakers, are a Christian sect that dates to the middle of the 18th century.
PrepareThe members lived in gender-segregated, dormitory-like housing, but came together to work and pray.
Get inShakers are known for their name because of the way they swayed and "danced" when the spirit moved them in church.
DriveFor the sake of convenience there are two routes, either of which can be covered in several days. Beginning to End loops through New York state and New England, and can be done in a long weekend.
Go nextTake a break from communal communities for a side trip to Anabaptist country. Visit the Amish and Mennonite communities in Pennsylvania Dutch Country and Holmes County, Ohio.
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- Photo: (WT-shared) SHC 05 November 2006, CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons