List of American utopian communities – Wikipedia

NameLocationFounderFounding dateEnding dateNotesZoarOhioJoseph Bimeler18171898Founded by German religious separatists who wanted religious freedom in America.Old Economy VillagePennsylvaniaGeorge Rapp18241906A Harmonites Village. The Harmony Society is a Christian theosophy and pietist society founded in Iptingen, Germany, in 1785.NashobaTennesseeFrances Wright18251828An abolitionist, free-love community. (LEP)New HarmonyIndianaRobert Owen18251829Harmonites VillageNew Philadelphia ColonyPennsylvaniaBernhard Mller[1]18321833A libertarian socialist communityOberlin ColonyOhioJohn J. Shipherd and 8 immigrant families[1]18331843Community based on Communal ownership of property[1]Brook FarmMassachusettsGeorge RipleySophia Ripley18411846A Transcendent community. Transcendentalism is a religious and cultural philosophy based in New England.North American PhalanxNew JerseyCharles Sears18411856A Fourier Society community. The Fourier Society is based on the ideas of Charles Fourier, a French philosopher.Hopedale Community[2]MassachusettsAdin Ballou18421868A community based on "Practical Christianity", which included ideas such as temperance, abolitionism, Women's rights, spiritualism and education.[3]FruitlandsMassachusettsAmos Alcott18431844A Transcendent community.Skaneateles CommunityNew YorkSociety for Universal Inquiry18431846A Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform community.Sodus Bay PhalanxNew YorkSodus Bay Fourierists18441846A Fourier Society community.Wisconsin Phalanx[4]WisconsinAlbert Brisbane[5]18441850A Fourier Society community.[4]Clermont PhalanxOhioFollowers of Charles Fourier18441845A Fourier Society community.Prairie Home CommunityOhioJohn O. Wattles[1]Valentine Nicholson[1]18441845A Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform community.Fruit HillsOhioOrson S. Murray[1]18451852A community based on Owenism and anarchism.[1] Maintained close contact with the Kristeen and Grand Prairie Communities.Kristeen CommunityIndianaCharles Mowland[1]18451847Founded by Charles Mowland and others who had previously been associated with the Prairie Home Community.[1] A Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform community.Bishop Hill ColonyIllinoisEric Jansson18461862A Swedish Pietist religious commune.Spring Farm ColonyWisconsin6 Fourierite Families[1]18461848A Fourier Society community.Oneida CommunityNew YorkJohn H. Noyes18481880A Utopian socialism community. Oneida Community practices included Communalism, Complex Marriage, Male Continence, Mutual Criticism and Ascending Fellowship.IcariansLouisiana, Texas,Nauvoo, Illinois,Iowa, Missouri, Californiatienne Cabet18481898A group of egalitarian communes based on the French utopian movement, founded by tienne Cabet, after led his followers to the United States.Amana ColoniesIowaCommunity of True Inspiration1850s1932The Amana villages were built one hour apart when traveling by ox cart. Each village had a church, a farm, multi-family residences, workshops and communal kitchens. The communal system continued until 1932.Modern TimesNew YorkJosiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews18511864Founded upon individual sovereignty and equitable commerce.Raritan Bay UnionNew JerseyMarcus SpringRebecca Buffum18531858A Fourier Society community.[1]Aurora ColonyOregonWilliam Keil18531883Christian utopian communityFree Lovers at Davis HouseOhioFrancis Barry[5]18541858A community based on Free love and spiritualism.[5]Reunion ColonyTexasVictor P. Considerant18551869A utopian socialism community.Octagon CityKansasHenry S. ClubbCharles DeWolfeJohn McLaurin18561857Originally built as a vegetarian colony.Workingmen's Co-operative Colony (Llewellyn Castle)[6]Kansasfollowers of James Bronterre O'Brien18691874A community based on the political reform philosophy of Chartist James Bronterre O'Brien.Danish Socialist Colony[7]KansasLouis Pio18771877A utopian socialist communityAm OlamAcross the USMania Bakl and Moses Herder1881Most disbanded by 1890sJewish social movement that sought to create agricultural communities in America.[8]Shalam ColonyNew MexicoJohn B. NewbroughAndrew Howland18841901A community in which members would live peaceful, vegetarian lifestyles, and where orphaned urban children were to be raised.Ruskin ColonyTennesseeJulius Wayland18941899Attempt to create a co-operative communal movement.Home, WashingtonWashingtonGeorge H. AllenOliver A. VerityB. F. O'Dell18951919An intentional community based on anarchist philosophyNuclaColoradoColorado Cooperative Company1896Established following the Panic of 1893. Originally called Pion.[9][10]

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List of American utopian communities - Wikipedia