Aliens from the Sheepfold

I've often wondered what neighboring villages and farmers thought of the society of Shakers at Pleasant Hill. I found one reference while researching a different branch of the family who lived in Garrard County, southeast of Mercer County. It comes from "The song of Lancaster, Kentucky, To the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard county," written by Eugenia Dunlap Potts in 1874.

Page 14 of The song of Lancaster, Kentucky, To the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard county.
Eugenia Dunlap Potts, May, 1874.

LOC Resources

The Library of Congress is such a valuable resource for genealogists and so much of the collection is now online, including the D.G. Beers & Co. maps from the late nineteenth century.

Here is the D.G. Beers map for the Pleasant Hill portion of Mercer County. You can find the complete map online at Loc.gov.

Map of Boyle & Mercer counties, Kentucky
D.G. Beers & Co.
H.J. Toudy & Co.
Worley & Bracher.
Philadelphia : D.G. Beers & Co., 1876