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	Pleasant Hill, Kentucky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, or Shakertown, as it is known by residents of the area, is located 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Lexington, in Kentucky's Bluegrass region.
		Having mentioned Pleasant Hill in his writings as early as 1949, Merton took considerable interest in the community from his first visit there in 1959 until his death in 1968.
		Visitors to Pleasant Hill can tour the grounds, dine in the Trustee's house, view museum exhibits, listen to performances of Shaker music, observe artisans and farmers at work using traditional 19th century methods, hike the nature trails, and take a riverboat cruise of the Kentucky River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pleasant_Hill,_Kentucky (906 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		KENTUCKY, officially Commonwealth of Kentucky, one of the East South Central states of the U.S., bordered on the N by Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois; on the E by West Virginia and Virginia; on the S by Tennessee; and on the W by Missouri.
		Western Kentucky is part of the Gulf Coastal Plain; it is also known as the Jackson Purchase because Gen. Andrew Jackson (later president of the U.S.) represented the federal government in its acquisition of the area from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818.
		Kentucky Lake, in the W part of the state, is a popular outdoor-recreational center, as are several of Kentucky’s other big artificial lakes.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/states/kentucky.html (3274 words)

	The Kentucky Country: Land of Tomorrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Kentucky is one of four states to call itself a "commonwealth." It was the fifteenth state and the first on the Western frontier.
		Kentucky was the first state to complete the writing of its state constitution and was the first state to be mapped topographically.
		Kentucky was second to Georgia to lower the voting age from 21 to 18.
	www.nfb.org /bm/bm03/bm0302/BM030209.htm (2759 words)

	Shakertown at Pleasant Hill Historic District Shaker Historic Trail -- National Register of Historic Places (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		At its peak, Pleasant Hill was one of the largest Shaker communities and by the mid-1850s was home to approximately 600 Shakers occupying 250 building and almost 2800 acres of land.
		The multiple Family Dwellings at Pleasant Hill are perfect examples of his approach with their particularly deep cellars and broad attics, living arrangements designed to be conducive to efficient domestic economy.
		Overview of Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill and one of the spiral staircases of the Trustee House
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/shaker/ple.htm (589 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Pleasant Hill In 1805 three Shaker missionaries, Isaachar Bates, Benjamin Youngs, and John Meacham, walked over 1,000 miles to the then U.S. frontier in Kentucky after hearing of fervent revivalism in the area.
		At Pleasant Hill, the three family divisions are known as the West, East, and Central Families.
		As the holiest spot in Pleasant Hill, the Meetinghouse was also reserved as the only building that could be painted white (Thomas and Thomas 1973).
	www.qx.net /jeff/jeff/sedaag95.txt (3285 words)

	Louisville Meeting: Page 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		For the next 50 years, Pleasant Hill existed as a small farm community, and in 1961, a nonprofit group was formed to preserve its heritage.
		Kentucky Shakers no longer exist and only one community is active in New England, yet their lasting influence is a legacy to all who visit Pleasant Hill.
		The Kentucky History Center is a classically inspired contemporary building of 167,000 square feet, designed to house the state museum as well as the research library, the educational programs, the special events, and the publications programs of the Kentucky Historical Society.
	underhillsociety.org /louisville4.htm (953 words)

	Pleasant Hill
		Pleasant Hill, Illinois, United States [Village]; population was 1,030 in 1990; housing units was 475 in 1990; location is 39°27'N 90°52'W; land area is 0.60 square miles (387 acres); water area is 0.00 square miles (0 acres); FIPS code is 60534 [SourceCBP]
		Pleasant Hill, Iowa, United States [City]; population was 3,671 in 1990; housing units was 1,322 in 1990; location is 41°35'N 93°31'W; land area is 4.86 square miles (3,109 acres); water area is 0.06 square miles (41 acres); FIPS code is 63525 [SourceCBP]
		Pleasant Hill, Tennessee, United States [Town]; population was 494 in 1990; housing units was 228 in 1990; location is 35°58'N 85°12'W; land area is 1.32 square miles (844 acres); water area is 0.01 square miles (8 acres); FIPS code is 59240 [SourceCBP]
	www.placesnamed.com /p/l/pleasant_hill.asp (1952 words)

	Terrain.org - A Vision of Shakertown for the New Millennium, by Ernest J. Yanarella
		One of the cultural landmarks of central Kentucky is Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill.
		Spearheaded by Earl D. Wallace, a well-known Kentucky businessman, a group of historic preservationists formed an organization in 1961 to purchase and restore the land and buildings that had deteriorated since the 1920s, when the site of this original Shaker community was sold and commercialized.
		For beneath and beyond the stifling implications of their renunciation of sex and their rigid segregation of women and men were the shaping influence of their woman founder and a parallel structure of organization placing brother and sisters, elders and eldresses, on relatively equal footing.
	www.terrain.org /articles/15/yanarella.htm (2913 words)

	Pleasant Hill, Kentucky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Pleasant Hill, also known as Shakertown, is in northeastern Mercer county near the Kentucky River.
		It was founded by members of the Society of Believers in Christs Second Appearing, known as the Shakers, in 1805, and the community eventually reached a size of 4,500 acres and a population of about 500.
		After many years of private ownership, much of the land and many of the buildings were restored as a museum known as Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill.
	www.uky.edu /KentuckyAtlas/ky-pleasant-hill.html (172 words)

	University Press of Kentucky - Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Founded in 1806, Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, was a thriving community for much of the nineteenth century.
		Eventually, a steadily shrinking membership saw the gradual decline of this remarkable village, and the last remaining Shaker to reside at Pleasant Hill died in 1923.
		In 1961 local citizens formed a private not-for-profit organization to preserve and restore the village and interpret the rich heritage of the Pleasant Hill Shakers.
	www.kentuckypress.com /viewbook.cfm?Group=48&ID=1273 (229 words)

	Shaker Singers Record Live in the Meeting House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This was a historic event for a couple of reasons: it was the first time the Pleasant Hill Singers had ever been recorded and, they were recording mostly songs written and sung by the Shakers of Pleasant Hill.
		This recording was created as a labor of love not only by the Pleasant Hill Singers, who provide the vocals, but also by the Shaker authors and composers who created this antique and yet, marvelously new and fresh body of music.
		Directed by Dr. Vicki Bell and Randy Folger, the Pleasant Hill Singers is a volunteer group of people who come together several times a year to perform Shaker music at Pleasant Hill and elsewhere.
	home.att.net /~shakercrafts/docs/folger.html (529 words)

	Saturday Evening Post: Kentucky keepsakes - folk art - includes related article on Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		As one of Kentucky' most renowned folk artists, h lives in a Louisville public housing project and turns out whimsical plywood chickens, roosters, and butterflies from his kitchen workshop.
		Although the Year of the American Craft is a coast-to-coast celebration, Kentucky has assumed a leading role in the observance.
		And, in spite of their wild gyrations when they were moved by the spirit of God, they were serene people with healthy habits that led to a lifespan almost double the national average.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1189/is_n4_v265/ai_13990590 (1397 words)

	Additional references about Kentucky (from Kentucky) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Rivers define Kentucky's boundaries except on the south, where it shares a border with Tennessee along a nearly straight line of about 425 miles (685 kilometres), and on its mountainous southeastern border with Virginia.
		The resolutions were written by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson (then vice president in the administration of John Adams), but the role of those statesmen remained unknown to the public for almost 25 years.
		For centuries Kentucky was a hunting ground and battlefield for such Native American tribes as the Shawnee from the north, the Iroquois from the east, and the Cherokee from the south.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-203410?tocId=203410 (970 words)

	Our Shaker Heritage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In fact, the 1820's were a time of multiple departures at Pleasant Hill, causing concern among the Believers and a more active role in taking in orphans to rebuild their ranks.
		We know that the children of Pleasant Hill were separated from their parents at an early age - often by age four - with boys and girls living apart, supervised by one or two adults assigned the responsibility of caretaker.
		In later years at Pleasant Hill a wider variety of courses were taught than in the early years.
	reddys.homestead.com /shaker~ns4.html (6136 words)

	KET's Electronic Field Trip to Perryville
		Roster by Company, 11th Kentucky Cavalry, C.S.A. The rosters were compiled from various sources by Anderson Chenault Quisenberry (nephew of Col. Chenault) in 1907.
		Virginia Yankee at Perryville—On the night of October 7, 1862, the eve of the Battle of Perryville, three Union officers sat around a campfire earnestly discussing the odds of being wounded in battle.
		Keeping the Home Fires Burning: Civil War in Southeast Kentucky, by Holly Timm, is a historical essay which includes a bibliography of primary sources.
	www.ket.org /trips/perryville (592 words)

	Caxtonian: December 2001
		Meanwhile, at the Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill in Kentucky, about 18 miles from my home near Lexington, a restoration had been underway since 1961 by a non-profit educational corporation formed locally by concerned citizens.
		One of the more recent interpretative projects at Pleasant Hill is the exhibit in the restored 1866 Timber Frame Stable at Shaker Landing on the Kentucky River.
		Pictured on Shaker calendar for 2002: sketch of Shaker Brother Micajah Burnett, (1791-1879), architect, engineer, surveyor and mathematician at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, KY, by a contemporary, the naturalist Constantine Rafinesque, professor at Transylvannia University, through whose courtesy it is used.
	www.caxtonclub.org /reading/2001/Dec2001/shakers.htm (1890 words)

	Shaker Workshops Museum Directory \| Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky
		The Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill preserves 34 original 19th century buildings accurately restored and adapted to provide visitors a variety of rewarding experiences.
		Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill is located on U.S. Route 68, 25 miles southwest of Lexington and 7 miles northeast of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
		at the Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky
	www.shakerworkshops.com /shaker-villages-and-museums/shaker-village-of-pleasant-hill.htm (507 words)

	Spirit Phenomena at Pleasant Hill, by Thomas Freese
		For a number of the employees of Shakertown at Pleasant Hill and for some of the visitors to Shakertown it would appear that the Shakers have not left, or perhaps that they have returned to their beloved "Zion on earth".
		In 1998 Thomas Freese, a volunteer with the Pleasant Hill Singers, started recording on cassette and in writing the amazing stories that range from a simple but perplexing rearrangement of dining room silverware to the appearance of Shaker spirits before astounded employees or guests.
		The Shakers are still present at Pleasant Hill and a sensitive visitor or a seasoned worker will readily note their own feelings of that presence.
	home.att.net /~shakercrafts/docs/freese.html (1850 words)

	American Profile: 10/22/2000 - 10/28/2000: Shaker Village Of Pleasant Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		For that reason, the religious group known as Shakers couldn’t have picked a better place to establish a community where their craftsmanship would be appreciated long after their departure.
		The Shakers thrived at Pleasant Hill for more than 100 years, but their belief in celibacy, and the lure of the secular world, prevented sustainable growth.
		In 1961, a nonprofit group called Shakertown at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky Inc., formed to coordinate the daunting task of restoring the third-largest Shaker settlement in the country.
	www.americanprofile.com /issues/20001022/20001022se_256.asp (783 words)

	Ford Album No. 77.01.155 --Photographic Archives, Ekstrom Library, University of Louisville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Arthur Y. Ford was chair of the Kentucky Committee for the exposition and apparently retained the albums of photographs after the closing of the expositon.
		Two of the Ford albums contained photographs of Kentucky scenes from the Appalachian, Bluegrass and Western portions of the state.
		Since the three albums contain no photographs of the Louisville and Northern Kentucky areas, it is speculated that there must originally have been a fourth album.
	www.louisville.edu /library/ekstrom/special/ayford/155cat.htm (151 words)

	eMarkWasson The Mark Wasson Site Travel Trips Dayton 2004-A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A daytrip to the Lexington, Kentucky, area, a couple nights at the theatre, and checking out the local bars were about the only highlights of the trip.
		The village at Pleasant Hill traces its origins to the arrival of three Shaker missionaries in 1805.
		By 1910 the 12 remaining Pleasant Hill Shakers officially closed the village.
	www.geocities.com /emarkwasson/y04daytona.htm (1362 words)

	BYRD MSS. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He was born in Virginia, received his academic and legal education in Philadelphia, and, in 1794, went to Kentucky to look after Robert Morris' land interests there.
		Byrd became deeply interested in the Shaker movement, and one of his sons, William Silonwe Byrd, joined the Shaker community at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky.
		For the years, 1826- 1828, a considerable portion of the collection consists of letters from his son, dealing with the beliefs of the Shakers and the affairs of Pleasant Hill.
	www.indiana.edu /~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/byrd.html (388 words)

	Kentucky.gov: - Press Releases
		Kentucky soldiers and their families will once again this year have the opportunity to visit via satellite during the UK vs. U of L basketball game, thanks to this yearâs âFreedom Calls from Rupp Arenaâ event.
		Kentucky's Native American Heritage has a Champion in Momfeather Erickson - poet, activist and teacher of the "old ways." Erickson, one-quarter Cherokee, has devoted the last three years of her life to educating those around her on the tribe's role in Kentucky history.
		Kentucky Archives Week Oct. 9-15 is a great opportunity for Kentuckians to find out about their past and what's available to research the state's history.
	kentucky.gov /Newsroom/topicbrowser/browse/FAMILY.htm (3472 words)

	TMC International Programs: The Cincinnati/Kentucky Area Museums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The American Classical Music Hall of Fame and Museum is dedicated to honoring and celebrating the many facets of classical music in the United States.
		Preserving and interpreting the special history of Kentucky is one of the many missions pursued by the Kentucky Historical Society.
		The Harriet Beecher Stowe House was built by Lane Seminary in 1833 to serve as the residence of that institution's president.
	www.thomasmore.edu /international/cinci/museums.html (309 words)

	The Society of Indiana Pioneers
		Established in 1805 on a high plateau above the Kentucky River, the community grew to as many as 500 residents and 4,000 acres of land by mid-century.
		For the next 50 years, Pleasant Hill existed as a small farm community.
		Goddard converted the structure into the Beaumont Inn, and during its entire history, four generations of the Goddard-Dedman family have maintained the tradition, the style and the ambiance of the grand Southern manner.
	www.indianapioneers.com /eventarchive/spring2000.html (828 words)

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