Credit: (Both) Old Economy Village
In early 1804 more than 500 Lutheran separatists led by Johann George Rapp moved from Wurttemberg, Germany to 5,000 acres of uncleared land on the Connoquenessing River north of Pittsburgh. In 1824 the Harmonists started a new town, Economy, that became one of the most prosperous and long-lived of Pennsylvania's intentional religious communities. When this photo was taken in 1890 few of its celibate members still survived. In the insert is John S. Duss, who managed the community's financial affairs in its final years.
