Cassadaga today is a village of a few dozen acres of wood-frame cottages, moss-hung oaks and quiet lanes, wholly surrounded by the ordinary sprawl of central Florida and wholly unlike it. The Southern Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp Meeting Association owns the land and governs the community; residents lease their homesites, and the mediums and healers who practice within the camp are certified by the Association, a discipline the community regards as its guarantee of seriousness against the psychic storefronts that cluster at its edges. Services follow the Spiritualist pattern of hymns, healing and message work, and visitors come year round for readings, the camp's bookstore, and evening orb tours that the Association tolerates with varying enthusiasm. The historic district of the camp, with buildings running back to the 1890s, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the community styles itself, with fair claim, the oldest active religious community in the American South.
The scholarly collection on Cassadaga edited by Guthrie, Lucas and Monroe treats it as something rarer than a curiosity: a living institution of American Spiritualism outside its northern homeland, negotiating tourism, real estate, media attention and its own aging membership while keeping a nineteenth-century religion in continuous practice under the Florida pines.