In 2016 the Museum published a blog post about a trip hammer built by the Church Family Shakers in 1847 to be used in their new blacksmiths’ workshop. The new trip hammer was an industrial size machine with the capability to shape hot metal of any size the Shaker might n...

In the early spring of 1843, the attention of the Shaker Ministry in New Lebanon, New York, was “called to an extraordinary communication from the spiritual world; a Sacred Roll, being then written.” This spiritual communication, unlike many others that were being recorded in...