George Ripley et al. Parodied in Hawthorne's Blythedale Romance.
The Rappite's 3rd commune. See Harmony.
A religious commune under the leadership of George Rapp in Butler County, PA. Then another of the same name in Indiana, later to be purchased by Robert Owen, and renamed New Harmony.
Robert Owen's commune, in which at one time 1000 people lived. The land and excellent facilities were purchased from George Rapp, the religious communist (it had been called Harmonie)
Founded by George Benson and others, who tended to be Garrisonian abolitionist. Home for a few years of Sojourner Truth, and the black former New Yorker, David Ruggles, who later set up a water-cure establishment on the former site of the Association.
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