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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.
Ruth Mildred Barker (February 3, 1897 – January 25, 1990) was a musician, scholar, manager, and spiritual leader from the Alfred and Sabbathday Lake Shaker villages. A prominent and respected Shaker during her long life, she worked to preserve Shaker music.
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. Today, the village is the last of some over two-dozen religious societies, stretching from Maine to Florida, to be operated by the Shakers themselves.
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 ...
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 ...
[9] [8] The Alfred Shaker Historic District is preserved and listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2001. [1] Only Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester survives under the control of the last few Shakers. Some former communities operate today as museums because, like Alfred Shaker Village, they closed when the ...
This book aimed to make the Shaker community better known to the public. [7] This book, which speaks extensively of Shaker founder Ann Lee, became one of the primary theological Shaker texts of its time. Its success established Sabbathday Lake as a part of the Shaker intellectual community. [8] [9] A second edition was published in 1907.
The Shaker Quarterly was a periodical published by the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village from 1961 to 1996. 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.