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Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village is a Shaker village near New Gloucester and Poland, Maine, in the United States. It is the last active Shaker community, with two members as of 2024 [update] . [ 7 ] The community was established in either 1782, 1783, or 1793, at the height of the Shaker movement in the United States.
The dwelling house at Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, the only active Shaker community, located in New Gloucester, Maine. Turnover was high; the group reached maximum size of about 5,000 full members in 1840, [70] and 6,000 believers at the peak of the Shaker movement. The Shaker communities continued to lose members, partly through attrition ...
New Gloucester is included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town area. It is home to the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, the last active Shaker village in the U.S. The town's population was 5,676 at the 2020 census. [3] New Gloucester is part of Maine's Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, metropolitan ...
New Gloucester, Maine Musical artist Joseph Brackett Jr. (May 6, 1797 – July 4, 1882) was an American songwriter, author, and elder of The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, better known as the Shakers .
The first villages organized in Upstate New York and the New England states, and, through Shaker missionary efforts, Shaker communities appeared in the Midwestern states. Communities of Shakers were governed by area bishoprics and within the communities individuals were grouped into "family" units and worked together to manage daily activities.
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The first known reference to "Simple Gifts" is an advertisement for a concert in October 1848 by the Shaker Family from the Society of Shakers of New Gloucester, Maine. [ 4 ] Resurgence and enduring popularity
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