Garden in Zoar photograph   Save
Louis Baus Collection
Description: Taken by photographer Louis Baus this is a photographic reproduction shows a garden on the west side of Main Street in Zoar, Ohio, between Third and Fourth Streets during the summer of 1892. The garden, existing as early as 1829, covered over an acre of ground and features a large Norway spruce at its center, symbolizing eternal life, and the geometric layout of the garden symbolized the New Jerusalem described in the Book of Revelation in the Bible. 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. After Bimeler's death in 1853, the unity of the village declined, and by 1898 the Zoarites disbanded the society. The remaining residents divided the property, and the community continued to prosper in Zoar. Louis Baus was a prominent photographer in Cleveland, Ohio, who began his career with studio work, but in 1911 became a staff writer for the "Cleveland Advocate, " a local newspaper that was later purchased by the "Cleveland Plain Dealer." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P223_B04_Series2Album1_31
Subjects: Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio); Society of Separatists of Zoar; Gardens;
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)