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Sylvania Colony

Sylvania Colony is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Pike County, dedicated 1948.

US 6

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The site of Horace Greeley's Utopian colony modeled on Brook Farm and the ideas of Fourier, French Socialist, was near here, 1842-45. The 300 members of the Sylvania Society abandoned it after July frosts killed all crops in 1845.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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Map Of Pennsylvania And New Jersey, 1825, covering the location of Sylvania Colony, with a pin at the marker's coordinates
Map Of Pennsylvania And New Jersey, 1825, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.
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