Julius Wayland
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Julius Augustus Wayland was a Midwestern US socialist during the Progressive Era. He is most noted for publishing Appeal to Reason, a socialist publication often deemed to be the most important social
Wayland c. 1905
Ruskin Colony
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The Ruskin Colony was a utopian socialist colony in the southern US at the end of the 19th century.
Julius Wayland
…cobbler.The Coming Nation, which quickly became the most popular socialist newspaper in America. At this point, he helped found a utopian settlement, the Ruskin Colony in Dickson County, Tennessee. In July 1895, he left Ruskin and moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where in August 1895, he started another socialist…
Cannery operation in the Ruskin Cooperative, 1896
Strawberry Pickers Ruskin Cooperative, 1897