- Pisgah Grande
Pisgah Grande (1914-1920) was aPentecostal Christian community in Las Llajas Canyon north ofSimi Valley founded by Dr. Finis E. Yoakum.Kagan, Paul, "New World Utopias". Penguin Books. 1975. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 74-78929.] In 1920 his successor, James Cheek, moved the colony toPikesville, Tennessee . [Sutton, Robert P., [http://books.google.com/books?id=pA01_CvpCsIC&pg=PA133&lpg=PA133&dq=%22pisgah+grande%22+pentecostal&source=web&ots=AUx8IpgEVo&sig=KQ57iDsFWuawG1Q49j43-tvpKlE#PPP1,M1 Modern American Communes, A Dictionary] , Greenwood Press, 2005, ISBN 0313321817, p. 133-134]Dr. Yoakum had experienced a
spiritual awakening and decided to devote his life to religious pursuits after a miraculous recovery from a carriage accident in 1895 inDenver . He relocated toLos Angeles where he founded several charitable enterprises named Pisgah, after the peak in the Sinai from which Moses saw the promised land. Beside Pisgah Grande there was Pisgah Home in the Highland Park section of Los Angeles, Pisgah Store, Pisgah Ark, a recovery house for women, and Pisgah Gardens, a rehabilitative center, orphanage, and farm inNorth Hollywood . [ [http://www.pisgah.com/history.html History of Pisgah ] ]Associated with the Christ Faith Mission of Highland Park, Pisgah Grande served as a mission and a rehabilitation center for the poor and destitute of
Los Angeles and other nearby areas.At one point the community had 300 members and its own
post office .References
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