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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.


see Hine, Robert V. California's utopian colonies. New York: Norton, 1973


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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