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Harmony Historic District

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Rapp House, Great House or Bentle Building (c. 1811), Langenbacher House (c. 1805), Harmonist Church (1808), The "Stohr," Beam Hotel, Frederick Rapp House, Schmitt House, Jacob Neff House (c.1807), Schreiber House, Wagner House, and Mueller House. The original Harmonist Cemetery contains the unmarked graves of 100 early Harmonists.
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The surviving elements of the early Harmonist settlement include a grid of streets in the heart of the modern town of Harmony, and a number of primarily brick buildings in that area. The district includes ten contributing buildings and one contributing site. Principal among these are the George
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was run as a communist theocracy, with Rapp and later his son as its leading figure. The Harmonist community was successful, growing to about 700 by 1814, when Rapp's son Frederick established a new settlement in the
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encompasses the first early 19th century settlement of the
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Harmony Society
Harmony, Pennsylvania
Harmony Historic District is located in Pennsylvania
Harmony Historic District is located in the United States
Harmony
Pennsylvania
40°48′11″N 80°7′42″W / 40.80306°N 80.12833°W / 40.80306; -80.12833
George Rapp
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Harmony Society
Harmony
Butler County, Pennsylvania
USA
National Historic Landmark District
Germany
Johann Georg Rapp
utopian community
Indiana Territory
New Harmony, Indiana
Economy
List of National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania
National Register of Historic Places listings in Butler County, Pennsylvania


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