"We also tried to get representation from most of the major Shaker villages."

One maintains the character of the Shaker village that was once home to a large religious community.

The Shaker village itself offers little space for widening the road.

The remains of a Shaker village are located on the prison grounds.

On the right, across the valley, the yellow and red houses in the mountains are original buildings from a 19th-century Shaker village.

A Shaker village was divided into groups or "families."

However, the daily business of a Shaker village required the brethren and sisters to interact.

All Shaker villages ran farms, using the latest scientific methods in agriculture.

New members could only come from conversions, and from children brought to the Shaker villages.

Other dismantled Shaker villages were converted into housing lots or prisons.