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This is a photograph of Marble Hall, built in 1810. It was the Shaker Trustees' Office in Union Village, one of the major Shaker villages. Marble Hall was extensively remodeled in 1891-1892 in the Victorian style. It is located west of Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, three or four miles east of Monroe. Union Village was the first and largest Shaker community west of the Allegheny Mountains, and was established in 1805. They eventually owned over 4000 acres of land in Turtle Creek Township of Warren County, but were in decline when this photograph was taken. By the 1840s, Union Village was the second largest Shaker settlement, with a population of 700. The village was disbanded in 1912, and was purchased by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. Today it is Otterbein Retirement Community. The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, more commonly known as the Shakers, is a Christian sect founded in the eighteenth century in England. The Shakers settled in Colonial America, with initial settlements in New Lebanon, New York (called Mount Lebanon after 1861). They practiced a celibate and communal lifestyle, pacifism, and their model of equality of the sexes. They are also known for their simple living, architecture, and furniture. Union Village. The Shakers are the longest lasting communal group in the nation. Mother Ann Lee brought a small group of followers from Manchester, England in 1774, which settled in the east. The group is still represented by a small society at Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in Maine. Because the eastern communities survived into the twentieth century, they are better known than the societies established in the Midwest and Upper South, known in the early nineteenth century as the West.</div>
19 March 1911<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1911-03-19T00:00:00Z/11</div>
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