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Green Acre is a conference facility in Eliot, Maine, in the United States. Eliot is a town in York County, Maine, United States. The population was 5954 at the 2000 census The United States of America —commonly referred to as the It was founded by Sarah Farmer in 1894.

After Sarah Farmer became a Bahá'í in 1900, many Bahá'í speakers were invited, including Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl in 1903, `Abdu'l-Bahá in 1912 and Mírzá Fadil-i-Mazindarani in 1920. The Bahá'í Faith is a Religion founded by Bahá'u'lláh in nineteenth-century Persia, emphasizing the spiritual unity of all humankind Mírzá Muḥammad (ميرزا أبوالفضل or Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl-i-Gulpáygání (1844-1914 was the foremost Bahá'í scholar who helped spread ‘Abdu’l-Bahá ( ar عبد البهاء &lrm (23 May 1844 - 28 November 1921 born `Abbás Effendí, was the son of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the In the 1913 Green Acre came into Bahá'í hands, and in 1929 it was converted into a summer school facility. It is now one of several permanent, year-round Bahá'í schools in the US.

Green Acre has been home to the annual Badasht Academy since the summer of 1999. A weeklong intensive study of Baha'i history, Badasht Academy is a four year program for high school aged students, most of whom reside in the northeastern United States.

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