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    Bishop Hill Colony is a historic district in Bishop Hill, Illinois. Bishop Hill was the site of a utopian religious community which operated as a commune...
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    the Pietist movement, led by Erik Jansson. Prior to founding the Bishop Hill Colony, Jansson preached to his followers in Sweden about what he considered...
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  • Bishop Hill Colony, a 19th-century religious commune Bishop Hills, Texas, a small town near Amarillo, Texas Bishop Hill, a hill in the Lomond Hills in Perth...
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    Influence on the Bishop Hill Colony" in Nobler things to View: Collected Essays on the Erik-Janssonists, published by the Bishop Hill Heritage Association...
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  • Alton, Ontario Yarrow Ecovillage, Chilliwack, British Columbia Bishop Hill Colony, Bishop Hill, Illinois, founded by Swedish pietist Eric Jansson Dancing...
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  • Daniel Hale Williams House Second Presbyterian Church Wrigley Field Bishop Hill Colony Cahokia Mounds Church of Holy Family Eads Bridge Nicholas Jarrot Mansion...
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    Revival-style Colony Church (1848), part of which was once used as single-room apartments by colony residents and which features a museum about Bishop Hill's history...
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  • org. Retrieved 2021-02-13. Fairhope 1894-1954, The Story of a Single Tax Colony, Paul E. and Blanche R. Alyea, University of Alabama Press 1956 Millner...
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  • survived the journey, founded the Bishop Hill Colony in Henry County, Illinois (adjacent to Knox County). He named the colony after his Swedish birthplace...
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    Swedish Radical Pietist who formed a separatist community, the utopian Bishop Hill Colony, after emigrating to Illinois. Radical Pietism's role in the emergence...
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    period 1840–47. In 1847, he joined the Swedish immigrant society at Bishop Hill Colony in Henry County, Illinois, which had been founded by sect leader Erik...
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    Swedish Historical Museum American Swedish Institute Bishop Hill Colony - Large sectarian colony in Illinois with Swedish followers of Eric Janson, established...
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    believers to Illinois, where they participated in the creation of the Bishop Hill Colony. After the murder of Eric Jansson, his father broke with his old faith...
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    Illinois Historical Museum in Henry County; the Bishop Hill Heritage Association Museum in Bishop Hill Colony, Illinois; the Lindsborg Old Mill & Swedish...
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    Olof Krans (category People from Bishop Hill, Illinois)
    United States. The family arrived at the Bishop Hill Colony in Bishop Hill, Illinois during 1850. Bishop Hill was the site of a utopian religious community...
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    Olof Johnson, one of the trustees of the Bishop Hill Colony. In addition to his position within the colony, Johnson also played a significant role in...
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    nearby Bishop Hill Colony who had lost faith in Eric Jansson's teachings, while the others were Swedes who had immigrated to the area due to the colony's fame...
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  • In 1852, Lindgren entered into a railway project together with the Bishop Hill Colony and settled in 1854 in Henry County, Illinois, a few miles from Galva...
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    " Bishop was sentenced to death and hanged.[page needed] She was recorded to be the first woman to die from hanging in the colony. "'Goodwife Bishop her...
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    Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620. He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact and went on to serve as Governor of the Plymouth Colony intermittently...
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    Jansson and his followers to Illinois where Eric Janson established the Bishop Hill Colony in Henry County. In 1846 O. G. Hedstrom likely directed passengers...
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    Bishop (formerly Bishop Creek) is a city in California, United States. It is the most populous place and the only incorporated city in Inyo County. It...
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  • is a patron saint of Valais, probably the first bishop of Octodurum. Joderhuebel — German for Yoder Hill — is a natural fortress on the Emme River in the...
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    The Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern Africa. It was proclaimed a British colony on 4 May 1843 after the British government had annexed...
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    The Colony of Tasmania (more commonly referred to simply as "Tasmania") was a British colony that existed on the island of Tasmania from 1856 until 1901...
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    Rose Hudson-Wilkin (category Jamaican bishops)
    19 January 1961), is a British Anglican prelate, who serves as Suffragan Bishop of Dover in the diocese of Canterbury – deputising for the Archbishop –...
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    to the demise of the PRG. Maurice Rupert Bishop was born on 29 May 1944 on the island of Aruba, then a colony of the Netherlands as part of the Territory...
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    they considered a "new Promised Land", where they would establish Plymouth Colony.: 44  The Pilgrims had originally hoped to reach America by early October...
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  • a colony. She is killed by Asbjorn. Played by Kelly Campbell (seasons 5–6) Kjetill Flatnose's wife, who joins Floki's expedition to set up a colony. Played...
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