Using foot-powered machinery, the Shakers could make two dozen brooms per person per day; quite a feat in the early 19th century. Shaker whisk brooms became popular for housewives, farmers ...

Stirring up the auction market this weekend was a 295-lot specialty auction of Shaker-made furniture and accessories. The top lot at Willis Henry's Pittsfield, Mass., sale was a mid-19th century ...

Whether Levi Dickenson is really the father of the broom industry or not, historians acknowledge that the broom was perfected by an enterprising Shaker ... for the early 19th century.

I have developed an interest in the Shakers and Shaker history, especially related to the “Era of Manifestations” in the mid-19th century. That was the period when the Shakers performed ...

But who invented the broom? And why does it work the way it works? Before the 19 th century, broom-making was ... who made the broom flat. The Shaker intervention—the only major update to ...

BELMONT — In a day and age when technology rules, Everett Bailey embraces a simpler time. On most Wednesdays Bailey can be found in the Carpenters Shop at Canterbury Shaker Village demonstrating ...

It emanates from the 1820 Meeting House, one of 34 Shaker buildings from the 19th century that comprise this ... craftsmen make flat brooms, which the Shakers are credited with inventing, the ...

ALBANY (AP) — A New York preservation group says the site of the first U.S. settlement of the Shaker Christian sect ... and German immigrants in the mid-19th century; Jamestown's Arcade district ...

During the mid-19th century, the Shakers were the largest and ... each as simple as they are exquisite. One Shaker community still remains in Maine, as well as several heritage villages and ...