My wife and I visited Pleasant Hill a few years ago and found it to be both beautiful and haunting. The buildings were silent sentinels to the men, women and children who inhabited these grounds for years. The empty halls and rooms seem to echo sounds of low volume.
We have also had the opportunities to visit the Canterbury Shaker Village, which was very beautiful and interesting. A non profit group is running many of the operations the Shakers performed and offers a very nice gift shop.
We visited the Enfield Shaker village in Northern New Hampshire which is beautiful! The Great Stone Dwelling, the center piece of the village, is the largest building ever built by the Shakers.
Mascoma Lake, which the village lies along, is the most beautiful site in all of New England! We travelled through Vermont, New York, Massachusetts and Maine but New Hampshire was the crown jewel! I can't help but think of On Golden Pond while we drove along the beautiful shore of this gleaming body of water.
@NH Civil War Gal you should be so proud of this natural beauty.
Regards
David