Canterbury Shaker Village
Come experience a living Shaker community - Canterbury Shaker Village. Discover the purposeful way of life practiced by the Shakers from the 1780's to today.
Shakers lived apart in self-contained communities from Maine to Kentucky. Within their villages they practiced equality of the sexes and races, common ownership of goods, celibacy and pacifism. They strove to make their villages an earthly heaven. Two hundred years of devoting their "Hands to Work and Hearts to God" created a legacy of architecture, furniture, crafts, inventions and song greatly admired today.
Canterbury Shaker Village was founded in the 1780's, the sixth of nineteen Shaker communities. At its peak in 1860, some 300 people lived, worked and worshiped in 100 buildings on 4,000 acres, and made their living from farming, selling seeds and herbs, manufacturing medicines, and making crafts.
Experience the Shakers' "Kindly welcome." Experts on Shaker history guide you through a world of beautiful images preserved through the ongoing care of manuscripts, photographs, artifacts, and original buildings. Skilled craftsmen recreate the traditional Shaker crafts of broommaking, oval box making, woodworking, poplarware, spinning and weaving.
Enter through our gate into another world - gentle, serene, inspiring. Feel the spirit of a community rich in values. Discover Shaker traditions through a guided tour, changing exhibits and demonstrations of timeless crafts. Better still, enter our world time and again as we celebrate the seasons and holidays as the Shakers did.
Shakers lived apart in self-contained communities from Maine to Kentucky. Within their villages they practiced equality of the sexes and races, common ownership of goods, celibacy and pacifism. They strove to make their villages an earthly heaven. Two hundred years of devoting their "Hands to Work and Hearts to God" created a legacy of architecture, furniture, crafts, inventions and song greatly admired today.
Canterbury Shaker Village was founded in the 1780's, the sixth of nineteen Shaker communities. At its peak in 1860, some 300 people lived, worked and worshiped in 100 buildings on 4,000 acres, and made their living from farming, selling seeds and herbs, manufacturing medicines, and making crafts.
Experience the Shakers' "Kindly welcome." Experts on Shaker history guide you through a world of beautiful images preserved through the ongoing care of manuscripts, photographs, artifacts, and original buildings. Skilled craftsmen recreate the traditional Shaker crafts of broommaking, oval box making, woodworking, poplarware, spinning and weaving.
Enter through our gate into another world - gentle, serene, inspiring. Feel the spirit of a community rich in values. Discover Shaker traditions through a guided tour, changing exhibits and demonstrations of timeless crafts. Better still, enter our world time and again as we celebrate the seasons and holidays as the Shakers did.
Information
Canterbury Shaker Village
288 Shaker Rd.
Canterbury, New Hampshire 03224
Telephone: 603-783-9511
Web Site: www.shakers.org
288 Shaker Rd.
Canterbury, New Hampshire 03224
Telephone: 603-783-9511
Web Site: www.shakers.org
location and directions
Canterbury Shaker Village is located in Canterbury, 20 minutes north of Concord, N.H. and is easily accessible from Interstate 93. Northbound: I-93 to Exit 15E, I-393 to 106N. 7 miles, turn left onto Shaker Road, go 3 miles. Southbound: I-93 to Exit 20, left on U.S. 3, 140E, follow signs to Shaker Village.