Harmony Museum

218 Mercer Street
Harmony, PA, 16037
724-452-7341

URL : http://www.harmonymuseum.org

overview : In 1807, during a religious revival, members of the Harmonie Society, as this communal group became known, adopted celibacy in the belief that it would keep them more spiritually pure. - The Harmonists moved to southwestern Indiana, to found the town of .. New Harmonie .. on the Wabash River. Ten years later they returned to western Pennsylvania to found yet another new home .. Economie.. (near Ambridge). -There the Society flourished in its golden years (1825-1868), then declined until its dissolution by a few remaining members in 1905, just 100 years from its association.

topics : religion, religious, movements, 19th, century, American, history