Shaker furniture from South Union, Kentucky

Magazine Antiques, May, 1997 by Tommy Hines

7 "Millennial Laws" of 1845, Part III, Section IV, No. 1, quoted in Edward Deming Andrews, The People Called Shakers: A Search for the Perfect Society (1953; Dover, New York, 1963), p. 285.

8 See Derita Coleman Williams and Nathan Harsh, The Art and Mystery of Tennessee Furniture and Its Makers Through 1850, ed. C. Tracey Parks (Tennessee Historical Society and Tennessee State Museum Foundation, Nashville, 1988), p. 49.

9 Joseph D. Watson, "Worktables of Early America," Southern Accents, July-August 1990, pp. 30-39.

10 Shaker Record B: South Union, Kentucky, September 10, 1836, to December 31, 1852 (62-2) (Shaker Museum at South Union).

11 Diary kept by the Church Center Family, South Union, 1900-1922 (Shaker Museum and Library, Old Chatham, New York).

12 Broadside dated April 8, 1922 (Shaker Museum at South Union).

TOMMY HINES is the executive director of the Shaker Museum at South Union in South Union, Kentucky.