Alasa Farms, also known as the Sodus Bay Shaker Tract and Sodus Bay Phalanx, is a historic farm complex located near the hamlet of
Alton
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in
Wayne County, New York
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. The farm complex was originally built and occupied by the Sodus Bay Shakers, an official branch of the
United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, from 1826 to 1838. Between 1844 and 1846, the property was home to the Sodus Bay Phalanx of the
Fourier Society, a group devoted to establishing utopian communities based on communal living. After 1846, the property lay vacant until 1868. It became a large scale, "model farm" in the early-20th century, being named Alasa Farms in 1924, by its owner Alvah Griffin Strong, grandson of
Henry A. Strong
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The property includes the contributing resources: the Main House and Deacon's House, large frame houses both built by the Shakers in 1833-1834; three gambrel roofed frame barns;
board and batten barn (c. 1840s); pony barn; granary (1932); house for bachelor farmhands (1926); office (c. 1930); in ground pool and pool house (c. 1926); two tenant house (c. 1909); two small sheds; and a well with pump.
In early 2011, Cracker Box Palace achieved ownership of Alasa Farms and it is used for farm animals of every kind to come to recover from illness, neglect or abuse.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 2009.
Gallery
Alasa Farms 222.JPG, Office, horse barn and bachelor farmhand's house
229 Alasa Farms Deacon's House.JPG, Deacon's House
Alasa Farms cow barn.JPG, Cow barn
230 Alasa Farms barn on west side of road.JPG, Barn on west side of road
References
Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Houses completed in 1834
Buildings and structures in Wayne County, New York
Model farms
Fourierists
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
National Register of Historic Places in Wayne County, New York
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