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Get to know the settlement
The architecture of the Watervliet Shaker settlement reflects the scale of their agricultural industries and the patterns of their daily lives. Workshops were constructed for the development and sale of herbal medicines and vegetable seeds, production of canned fruits and vegetables, and the manufacture of brooms. Dwelling Houses and the Meeting House provided communal living quarters for sleep, meals, and worship.
Explore the development of the settlement during the Shaker years and as a historic district
Ann Lee and her followers began to turn the leased land into a productive property
Occupation of the settlement at its peak, based on the Buckingham Map
Albany County purchased the property and surveiled the Shaker structures
The Church Family site today with all the surviving Shaker buildings