Sylvania Colony
The site of Horace Greeley''s Utopian colony modeled on Brook Farm and the ideas of Fourier, French Socialist, was located here. Based on common property holding and equal labor, it failed in 1845 after July frosts had killed all crops.
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Marker data: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission via data.pa.gov
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