Hancock Shaker Village

Route 20 and 41, P.O. Box 927
Pittsfield, MA, 01201
413-443-0188

URL : http://www.hancockshakervillage.org

overview : Hancock Shaker Village is an outdoor history museum of Shaker life on 1,200 acres in the scenic Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts. - Its twenty original buildings and historic working farm and gardens preserve and interpret the life of America’s most successful communitarian society. - The third of 19 Shaker communities established in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Hancock was home to members of the communal, religious society from 1783 to 1960. - It became an outdoor history museum in 1960.

topics : living, history, religion, religious