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The Daily Dispatch: November 16, 1860., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New harmony. (search)
New harmony. The first non-religious community established in America. In 1805 a party of Harmonists, members of a sect founded in Wurtemberg about 1780, emigrated to America and first settled in Butler county, Pa. In 1814 they removed to Indiana; purchased 27,000 acres of land; and named the settlement Harmony. Robert Owen (q. v.) purchased this property in 1824; renamed the settlement New Harmony; and organized a new community which, on Jan. 12, 1826, adopted a constitution under the name of The New harmony community of equality. On July 4, following, Mr. Owen delivered his famous declaration of mental independence against the trinity of man's oppressors—private property, irrational religion, and marriage. Owen failed in his scheme for a social community, and returned to England. The original founders of Harmony, after selling their property in Indiana, returned to Pennsylvania, and established the new community of Economy, near Pittsbu