Icarians --a utopian communistic movement founded in 1847
- Tom Monto
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Wikipedia: "List of American Utopian communities"
Icarians are listed there, too numerous to name here
Here is a bit of additional info. on the Icarians.
Icarians was a communistic movement founded in 1847
based on utopian ideas promulgated in M. Cabet's book The Voyage to Icaria
(see Wiki: The Voyage to Icaria)
established colonies at various locations in the U.S. -
Texas -- along the Red River, Texas, Denton County, TX
Illinois -- Nauvoo, Illinois
Iowa -- Adams County, Iowa, (1854-1890) (see "New Icarian Community records in Adams County, Iowa, 1854-1890", world cat.org)
Missouri -- Cheltenham, Missouri
California -- Icaria-Sperenza Commune at Sonoma County and at Cloverdale, CA
with break-away groups at Corning, Iowa (disbanded in 1898).
(see Encyclopedia of Social Reform;
Wikipedia articles: Icarians;
Albert Shaw. Icaria A Chapter in the History of Communism.
This work (page 175-186) recounts a variety of other intentional settlements in the U.S. some assisted by veterans of the Icarias movement, including:
Brook Farm at Boston;
"New Odessa" community at Douglas County, Oregon 1882- (p. 182)
"Mutual Aid Community" at Glen-Allen, Missouri 1882-ish (p. 181)
Albert Shaw. Icaria A Chapter in the History of Communism. available at Hathi trust:
see also Brief history of Icaria : constitution, laws and regulations of the Icarian community. English, 1880
worldcat.org lists that and 35 other books and publications by or about Icaria.
National Icarian Heritage Society. A photographic history of Icaria-Speranza: a French utopian experiment at Cloverdale, California. Nauvoo, IL: The Society,1989
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