Sylvania Colony
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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Marker data: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission via data.pa.gov
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