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Mount Lebanon, the Shakers' central ministry
1787
New Lebanon, New York
Adam Lenhardt · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The lead community of a celibate sect that grew to six thousand members, governed from here and organised around the idea that work done well was worship. They invented or first sold the flat broom, the circular saw and packaged garden seed, and the furniture they made plain on doctrinal grounds is now collected as design.
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