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The Sabbathday Lake Shaker Museum is the largest repository of Maine Shaker culture. Examples of furniture, oval boxes, woodenware, metal and tin wares, technology and tools, "fancy" sales goods, costume and textiles, visual arts, and herbal and medicinal products are among the 13,000 artifacts currently in the Sabbathday Lake collection.
New Gloucester is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States.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
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 ...
June Carpenter (born 1938) is an American Sabbathday Lake Shaker. [1] [2] Life. She came from Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1987, she converted at 49 years old.
The Shakers at Sabbathday Lake "stressed the autonomy of each local community" and therefore do accept new converts to Shakerism into their community. [24] This Sabbathday Lake Shaker Community receives around two enquiries every week. [25]
Location of Androscoggin County in Maine. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Androscoggin County, Maine.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Androscoggin County, Maine, 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.
Alfred Shaker Historic District is a historic district in Alfred, Maine, with properties on both sides of Shaker Hill Road.The area had its first Shaker "believers" in 1783 following visiting with Mother Ann Lee and became an official community starting in 1793 when a meetinghouse was built.