@article{Schoonmaker2017,
       author = "Schoonmaker, Nancy Gray and Goodwillie, Christian",
       title =  {{Abijah Alley of Long Hollow: Preacher, Shaker Apostate, and Backwoods Prophet of the American South}},
       howpublished = "\url{https://ir.hamilton.edu/do/1dcaa314-6085-46c1-8db8-eb1a35a7a809}",
       publisher = {Richard W. Couper Press and Hamilton College Library Special Collections},
       journal = {American Communal Societies Quarterly},
       year = 2017,
       month = jul,
       volumen = {11},
       number = {3},
       pages = {143--183},
       issn = {1939-473X},
}

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July 1st, 2017

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Abijah Alley had the gift of prophecy. He also wrote, painted, farmed, and traveled. Sources tell us his peregrinations took him to the Shaker community at Union Village, Ohio; later to Cincinnati and across the Ohio River to Covington, Kentucky; to visit the president in Washington; to Europe; to the Holy Land; to Texas. And that when he returned to his family’s Appalachian property he constructed a replica of King Solomon’s temple for his home.

A mercurial religious visionary, Alley blazed an irregular trail through the first half of nineteenth-century America. Despite his remarkable life he has thus far eluded biographers. This article attempts to bind together the disparate threads of his pilgrimage into a narrative telling of his spiritual journey.

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American Communal Societies Quarterly

ISSN

1939-473X

Volume

11

Issue

3

First Page

143

Last Page

183

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Richard W. Couper Press

Hamilton College Library Special Collections

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