New Harmony, Indiana
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New Harmony is a historic town on the Wabash River in Harmony Township, Posey County, Indiana, United States. It lies 15 miles north of Mount Vernon, the county seat, and is part of the Evansville met
Downtown New Harmony
Photo from Small Town Indiana photo survey
West Street Log Cabins
Eigner Cabin
Owenism
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Owenism is the utopian socialist philosophy of 19th-century social reformer Robert Owen and his followers and successors, who are known as Owenites. Owenism aimed for radical reform of society and is
New Harmony, Indiana
…the settlement into four different societies with money used to trade between them. By March 1827, after several other attempts to reorganize, the Owenite social experiment was considered a failure. Those who wanted to continue the scheme leased some of the land, and smaller communities were formed from…
Robert Owen, after whom Owenism is named
New Harmony, a utopian attempt; depicted as proposed by Robert Owen
Interior view of the Blackfriars Rotunda, where the N.U.W.C. met.
Frances Wright, c. 1825