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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 Shaker community there was disbanded in 1922, and the property sold to the Benedictines in 1949. There, they established an interracial monastery, the first of its kind in the United States. [2] As of 2010, there was only one Shaker community remaining active, the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village located at Sabbathday Lake, Maine. [3] [4] [5]
Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village was founded in 1783 by the United Society of True Believers at what was then called Thompson's Pond Plantation. It was formally organized on April 19, 1794. It was formally organized on April 19, 1794.
This community, founded by the former residents of Gorham when that village closed, served as the North Family and Gathering Order of the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village. Drake's Creek , or the Mill Family, in Warren County, Kentucky , was a venture by the South Union, Kentucky , Shakers, to establish a water-powered mill some 16 miles removed ...
Shaker box-maker Ricardo Belden (Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1935) Round Stone Barn, Hancock Shaker Village, Massachusetts, 2004 Shaker Anodyne bottle; Enfield Shaker Village; late 19th century; H-4, W-1.625, D-1 inches; Enfield Shaker Museum Onion field; Enfield Shaker Village; Enfield, New Hampshire; 1897; by F. C. Churchill; Enfield Shaker Museum
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In 1987, she converted at 49 years old. Before becoming a Shaker she worked in library sciences. [3] After volunteering in the Shaker Library in New Gloucester, Maine she decided to join the faith. [4] Today she is one of only two living members of the Shaker faith living and working in Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village; the other is Brother ...
It served as a journal and newsletter about the Shakers, and at times also doubled as a mail order catalog advertising products created by the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake. It was the first regular Shaker publication since the Manifesto ceased publication in 1899. [1] The Quarterly was launched in 1961 by Theodore E. Johnson and Mildred ...