Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village
Both groups believed that everybody could find God within him or herself, rather than through clergy or rituals, but the Shakers tended to be more emotional and demonstrative in their worship.
The other 18 communities were built in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Georgia and Florida.
[3] Its location in Cumberland County, Maine, made it the most northern and eastern of all the Shaker communes.
[10] The Sabbathday Lake community grew to a size of 1,900 acres (770 ha) with 26 large buildings by 1850.
They built a mill and farm that enabled them to sell produce and commercial goods to the outside world.
[4] The village, which attracts up to 10,000 visitors a year,[2] has been open to the public since 1931, when the Shaker Museum and Library was established.
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.
"[2] The sale of future development rights has enabled the Shakers to restore and maintain the structures of the village.
[2] Other income sources include production of fancy goods, basket making, weaving, printing, and the manufacturing of some small woodenware.
With Carr's death, Sister June Carpenter and Brother Arnold Hadd remained.
They farm and practice a variety of handicrafts; a Shaker Museum and Sunday services are open to visitors.
[20] Mother Ann Lee is celebrated on the first Sunday of August to commemorate the arrival of the English Shakers in America in 1774.
The village regularly receives visitors, and Arnold and June teach them how to make soap and bind books.
That decision would be made by a nonprofit corporation—the United Society of Shakers, Sabbathday Lake Inc.—whose board members are largely non-Shakers.
[23] All of the following Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) documentation is filed under Sabbathday Lake Village, Cumberland County, ME:
