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ephrata  

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  • Ephrata (another name for Bethlehem) is the name given to one of the earliest and most successful religious communitarian societies in eighteenthcentury North America. It was founded in 1732 in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, by the gifted but imperious Conrad Beissel (1691–1768). [Source: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World; Ephrata]

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