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The Tyringham Shaker Settlement Historic District was a historic Shaker village on Jerusalem Road in Tyringham, Massachusetts. Among the buildings in the village were mills and workshops. There was a reduction in members prior to the American Civil War and in the 1870s the remaining "believers" moved to Hancock Shaker Village in Massachusetts and Enfield Shakers Village in Connecticut. In 1874 the Shakers executed the Tyringham Shaker settlement property exchange with a New York City doctor, Joseph Jones, for property in Pennsylvania. Dr. Jones open a summer retreat and boardinghouse called "Fernside". In 1889 the property was sold to the Tyringham Forest Club. It is now farmland. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. ==Shaker settlement== The Shaker community was established in 1792, and flourished, acquiring more than in Tyringham and adjacent towns at the height of the movement's popularity. The farmstead of William Clark on Jerusalem Road was the site of the main settlement, with a satellite settlement about further north. In addition to the their communal living and worship spaces, the Shakers built a number of mill buildings, workshops, and even a furnace. The population of the settlement began to shrink in the years before the American Civil War, and its demise was hastened by the departure in 1858 of 23 individuals. In the 1870s the remaining Tyringham Shakers moved to other settlements (in Hancock, Massachusetts and Enfield, Connecticut).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MACRIS inventory record for Tyringham Shaker Settlement Historic District )〕 Image:Shaker settlement 1, Tyringham MA.jpg|Shaker settlement, Tyringham, Massachusetts 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tyringham Shaker Settlement Historic District」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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