Item 1183 - Home of Benjamin Rogers, Jaffa, Palestine, ca. 1866
- Item 1183 - Home of Benjamin Rogers, Jaffa, Palestine, ca. 1866
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Image Info The home in Jaffa, Palestine, of Benjamin K. Rogers, one of the elders of a group of 156 people who emigrated from Jonesport to Jaffa in 1866 to establish a religious colony called the Church of the Messiah, also known as the Jaffa Colony.
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Rogers was among the 54 group members who did not perish before the colony was disbanded in 1868.
