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Shaker Library

707 Shaker Road
New Gloucester, ME 04260
Contact Information
Phone: 207 926-4597
Email:
Web Site: www.shaker.lib.me.us

Type of Library: Special Library

Hours:

8:30 am - 4:30 pm, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays-year round. Appointments required

Description:

The Shaker Library was established in 1882. The Library collection,second largest Shaker collection in the country, contains an extensive number of items related to the Shakers, America's most successful and best known communal group. All Shaker villages are represented with an emphasis on the Maine Shaker villages. Research materials include books,manuscripts,tapes,ephemera,diaries and journals,periodicals,scrapbooks,photographs,microfilm collections,maps and an Index Nominum of Shakers. Special collections include Radical Christian groups related to the Shakers,Thomsonian herbal medicine and the Poland Spring resort.

Services Offered

  • Genealogy Collection
  • Handicapped Access
  • Meeting Room

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