Hancock Shaker Laundry and Machine Shop building

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  • Photo title: Hancock Shaker Laundry and Machine Shop building
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  • The Laundry/Machine Shop accommodated both Sisters and Brethren’s work. Equipment in the machine shop and washroom was powered by an overshot waterwheel and later by a turbine, fed by the Shakers’ extensive water system. Housing both Brethren’s and Sisters’ work under one roof was rare throughout Shaker history due to their belief in gender separation. Machines and equipment in the building ran on a state-of-the-art waterpower system powered by an overshot wheel developed in the Village’s earliest years. This building illustrates not only the separate nature of work carried out by the Brethren and the Sisters, but also the Shaker philosophy of “Hands to Work and Hearts to God.” This saying, attributed to the Shaker founder Mother Ann Lee, stood as a reminder to all Believers that, according to Shaker principles, work and worship, the practical and the spiritual, were inseparable.
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