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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 ...
ZIP codes: 27526 [8] Area code(s) 919/984: FIPS code: 37-25300: GNIS feature ID: ... near the post office and the couple's Varina Mercantile Company general store. In ...
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 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.
Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, USA, is the site of a Shaker religious community that was active from 1805 to 1910. Following a preservationist effort that began in 1961, the site, now a National Historic Landmark, has become a popular tourist destination.
“We’re all one city,” said Shaker Village President Jodi-Ann Reid. The 1973-era community’s clubhouse, which was more than 4,000 square feet, was appraised at about $1.25 million. But city ...
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The Harvard Shaker Village Historic District is located in the vicinity of Shaker Road, South Shaker Road, and Maple Lane. At its largest, the Shakers owned about 2,000 acres of land in Harvard. By 1890, the Harvard community had dwindled to less than 40, from a peak of about 200 in the 1850s. In 1917 the Harvard Shaker Village was closed and sold.