Jct. of US 322 and 222, Ephrata, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Lancaster.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 24, 1967. NRIS 67000026.
8 contributing buildings.
The Ephrata Cloister or Ephrata Community was a religious community, established in 1732 by Johann Conrad Beissel at Ephrata, in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The grounds of the community are now owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and are administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Marie Kachel Bucher, the last surviving resident of the Ephrata Cloister, died on July 27, 2008, at the age of 98.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994187