Go to the Shakers. See for yourself who and what they are.” -- Eldress Antoinette Doolittle, 1824 They called themselves the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing ...

Though Shaker beliefs prevented her from patenting the invention, her idea laid the groundwork for modern sawmill technology. Babbitt's innovation not only improved efficiency in lumber processing ...

Little is known of the early life of Rebecca Cox Jackson, a black woman who became an eldress in the Shaker religion and founded a Shaker community in Philadelphia. Rebecca was born in 1795 to a ...