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Louis Baus Collection
Description: Taken by photographer Louis Baus, this photographic reproduction shows a group of men, women, and children of the Society of Separatists of Zoar harvesting wheat, with up-to-date harvesting tools for the period, on the northeast end of town. Jacob Ackerman, a trustee, is in the foreground. Led by Joseph Bimeler in 1817, a group of Lutheran separatists left the area of Germany known as Wurttemberg and eventually established the small community of Zoar in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. They would become known as the Society of Separatists of Zoar in 1819. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P223_B04_S02_A1_96
Subjects: Photography; Society of Separatists of Zoar; Religious Societies; Communal societies; Harvesting; Farm equipment; Farming
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)