Jerusalem Rd., Tyringham, Massachusetts. County/parish: Berkshire.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 15, 1987. NRIS 87001785.
11 contributing buildings. 11 contributing sites. 4 contributing structures.
The Tyringham Shaker Settlement Historic District was a historic Shaker village on Jerusalem Road in Tyringham, Massachusetts. Among the buildings in the village were mills and workshops. There was a reduction in members prior to the American Civil War and in the 1870s the remaining "believers" moved to Hancock Shaker Village in Massachusetts and Enfield Shakers Village in Connecticut.
In 1874 the Shakers traded the property to a New York City doctor, Joseph Jones, for property in Pennsylvania. Dr. Jones open a summer retreat and boardinghouse called "Fernside". In 1889 the property was sold to the Tyringham Forest Club. It is now farmland.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794148