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Photographer: Mike Wintermantel
Taken: March 15, 2015
Caption: Zoar Village - Panel 4
Additional Description: The Zoarites who fought in the Civil War unknowingly changed the community mindset. The tightly-closed borders of the separatist community began to open as the young, American-born Zoarites returned home after exposure to new experiences, languages and ideas. As one of Zoar's trustees wrote in 1862:
The spirit of worldliness has torn away several of our young men.

Even though the Zoar soldiers went against the founding principles of the Society, those who returned were welcomed back with pride. In 1898, increasing interactions with the world outside of the community combined with a shift in ideals of the community contributed to the Zoarites disbanding their communal way of life.
Submitted: March 16, 2015, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p302947
File Size: 2.530 Megabytes

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