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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 Enfield settlement, was founded in the 1780s, and lasted until 1917. There were three distinct centers of development, called "families" by the Shakers. [ 3 ] In 1930, 1600 acres of the former settlement were purchased by the State of Connecticut to establish a new prison farm[3]; eventually becoming the state's largest prison complex.
Sabbath Day Lake Shakers, Maine; Interview of the Sabbath Day Lake Shakers; Sabbath Day Lake Shaker Library and Museum Archived 2007-05-01 at the Wayback Machine; Shirley Shaker Village, Shirley, Massachusetts; South Union Shaker Village, South Union, Kentucky; Whitewater Shaker Village, Whitewater, Ohio
In the 5 years between 1787 and 1792, the Shakers gathered into eight more communities in addition to the Watervliet and New Lebanon villages: Hancock, Harvard, Shirley, and Tyringham Shaker Villages in Massachusetts; Enfield Shaker Village in Connecticut; Canterbury and Enfield in New Hampshire; and Sabbathday Lake and Alfred Shaker Village in ...
Enfield Shaker village c. 1910. In 1793, a historic Shaker village, Enfield Shaker village, one of nineteen scattered from Maine to Kentucky, was established in the town. The Utopian religious sect practiced celibate, communal living, and is today renowned for its simple architecture and furniture. Membership eventually dwindled, however, and ...
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 Great Stone Dwelling; Enfield Shaker Museum, New Hampshire; Built 1837. The district extends from Oak Grove Street in the west to the junction of Baltic Street and United States Route 4 in the east and includes properties on both sides of the Mascoma River, from Route 4 to the junction of Pillsbury Street and Shaker Hill Road.
There are 2 remaining Shakers? But anyone can join? I am now a Shaker, can anyone please tell me how I can go about contacting the other two? Anyone have their addresses?2603:7080:1AF0:8040:BD36:2857:6D21:1C0D 00:58, 8 November 2024 (UTC)