Zoar Village State Memorial

Historic Zoar Village thrived for 80 years!

Welcome to Zoar. The community was founded in 1817 by radical pietists (from Germany) as a utopian Christian community, which survived until 1898. Most of the community was designated as a National Hi...

A Must Do Experience

This is an amazing piece of Ohio history that should be experienced by everyone. The buildings and people dressed up as characters from yesteryear add to the atmosphere here. The tour of the buildin...

Interesting History

We missed the escorted tour by about 5 minutes and would have had to wait another hour and a half, so we walked around the village ourselves. Only the bakery was open and one could enter the gardens ...

Amazing History

Very interesting history of German Radical Pietists establishing communal living. They were self-sufficient, making everything they needed and toiling hard in the fields to raise their crops. They e...

Nice spot for Covid day trip

Been here before but it was really nice this summer. Everyone was Wearing masks, the homes and gardens were still taken care of very well and it all seemed very peaceful and quiet. If you are lo...