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Birth of a Founder
The founder of the Koreshan Unity: Cyrus Reed Teed, was born in an area known as Teedsville, Delaware County, New York. -
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History of the Koreshan Unity
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"Illumination"
In the fall of 1869 (the exact date is unknown), Cyrus Teed experienced a severe electric shock during one of his many medical and scientific experiments. During his unconciousnous, he claimed, he saw God as a male-female figure, who told him the secrets of the universe: Earth was hollow and the universe was within it, and that the Bible had to be translated into scientific prospects. Not to mention that earlier Teed thought that he had turned lead into gold. -
Birth of the Koreshan Unity
What would become known as the Koreshan Unity was likely founded on this date as this is when they rented their first property in Chicago. -
A Great Pilgrammage
The Koreshans began their great pilgrammage from Chicago to their new settlement near Estero, Florida. A site that they would call: New Jerusalem. -
Incorporation of a Religion
With the Standard Oil Company as a model, the Koreshan Unity became incorporated in Estero, Florida. -
Death of a Leader
Likely due to a beating two years earlier, Cyrus (then known as Koresh) Teed died in Estero, FL. -
From a Church to a State Park
In 1961 (the exact date is unknown) the last four members of the Koreshan Unity deeded their land to the State of Florida to become a State Park. That park and 11 of the original buildings survive to this very day. -
Death of a Religion
The last living member and President of the Koreshan Unity: Hedwig Michel, dies at the ripe old age of 90.
