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Backwoods Utopias: The Sectarian and Owenite Phases of Communitarian Socialism in America, 1663–1829

Arthur Bestor · University of Pennsylvania Press · 1950

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Type: Book
Author: Arthur Bestor
Accessed: 2026-09-01
Reliability notes: Internet Archive record of the 1950 edition (lending copy); Open Library work OL5473262W. Second, enlarged edition 1970.

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EstablishedOwen bought Harmony and about 20,000 acres from the Harmony Society in January 1825 for a reported $150,000 (some sources give $125,000), and by the end of the experiment had spent about $200,000 of his own money on property and debts before transferring the property to his sons for an annuity.EstablishedMaclure's educators, who arrived on the keelboat Philanthropist in January 1826, ran Pestalozzian schools; under Joseph Neef as superintendent they had as many as 200 pupils aged five to twelve.