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High Amana Farm Complex
Dominating the landscape of the Amana Colonie...
Hahn’s Hearth Oven Bakery
Hahn's Hearth Oven Bakery continues a traditi...
Communal Kitchen and Coppershop Museum
The Ruedy Küche (kitchen house), built in 186...
Lily Lake
The well-known Lily Lake between Amana and Mi...
Amana Furniture Shop
Calico making was part of the economic activi...
Roger’s Anvil/Industrial Machine Shop Museum
On the backside of the woolen mill, the machi...
Amana Woolen Mill
Construction of the Woolen Mill in Amana bega...
Colony Inn Restaurant
The Amana Colonies have always been a popular...
Museum of Amana History
The Museum of Amana History is c...
Mill Race
Between 1865 and 1869, the Amana Colonists bu...
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High Amana Farm Complex
Dominating the landscape of the Amana Colonies, the farm complex sat clustered at the edge of each village. High Amana, like the other Amana villages, was equipped with a complete farm complex, allowing the village to be nearly self-sufficient. ...
Hahn’s Hearth Oven Bakery
Hahn's Hearth Oven Bakery continues a tradition of baking breads and pastries in the original wood-fired stone hearth that has been in the building since it was built in 1864. Each village in the Colonies had bakeries to supply ...
Communal Kitchen and Coppershop Museum
The Ruedy Küche (kitchen house), built in 1863, served up to 40 community members at each meal during the communal era and was one of about nine kitchen houses in Middle Amana. In the communal Amana Colonies no residents ...
Lily Lake
The well-known Lily Lake between Amana and Middle Amana was formed about 1880 when a break in the Mill Race levee flooded a low slough area. The lake derives its name from the thousands of yellow American lotus lilies ...
Amana Furniture Shop
Calico making was part of the economic activity of the Inspirationists when they lived in Ebenezer, New York. Calico was originally a cotton cloth from India, and eventually denoted several kinds of cotton cloth. In the United States it ...
Roger’s Anvil/Industrial Machine Shop Museum
On the backside of the woolen mill, the machine and locksmith shop occupied a building adjacent to the millwright's shop. The metal workers kept the metal components of the mill and farm machinery repaired, and they installed new technology ...
Amana Woolen Mill
Construction of the Woolen Mill in Amana began in 1859, and the mill complex was continually added to until 1943. A salesroom was later added in the 1960s. The production and sale of wool items has a long history ...
Colony Inn Restaurant
The Amana Colonies have always been a popular tourist spot, and even before the Reorganization of 1932, people visited the Amana villages out of curiosity about the communal society. The train, and later the automobile, greatly increased the number ...
Museum of Amana History
The Museum of Amana History is comprised of three 19th-century buildings, consisting of the Noé House, the Schoolhouse and the Woodshed/Washhouse. The buildings are used to interpret communal life in the Amana Colonies. The Amana Society was one of ...
Mill Race
Between 1865 and 1869, the Amana Colonists built a seven-mile-long canal stretching from the Iowa River near West Amana, through Middle Amana, then through Amana, and into Price Creek, just past town, where it continued to the river. They ...
