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Zoar Collection
Description: This is an image of a wooden Empire-Beidermeier style settee that is attributed to Zoar, Ohio, in Tuscarawas County. This maple and pine settee has a straight, low back with thirteen thin scrolled splats that are tenoned between two horizontal rails. The simple, scroll-end armrests have plain, enclosing end panels. There are four legs with bracket feet. There are nine pine seat splats that fit into grooved slots. The settee dates from the late 19th century. The Ohio Historical Society purchased this settee from T. F. Thornton of Milan, Ohio, in 1965.; Historical Note: The Society of Separatists of Zoar was a group of German religious dissenters who immigrated to Ohio in 1817. Finding it difficult to make ends meet on their own, they formed a communal society in 1819 in which all members shared equally. After a few hard years, the group became solvent by helping build seven miles of the Ohio and Erie Canal, which passed through their lands. The canal enabled them to get their produce to market and allowed them to be financially successful. The Zoarites manufactured much of what they needed themselves. The village of Zoar, named for the Biblical city that Lot fled to from Sodom and Gomorrah, included grist mills, a wool factory, iron furnaces, a tannery, a foundry, garden, and store. The community disbanded in 1898. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8010
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Chairs; Furniture
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)