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At Brook Farm, as in other communities, physical labor was perceived as a condition of mental well-being and health. Brook Farm was one of at least 80 communal experiments active in the United States in the 1840s, though it was the first to be secular. [10] Ripley believed his experiment would be a model for the rest of society.
Brook Farm overlooks Skaneateles Lake and was built in 1902. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. [1] It includes Colonial Revival style ...
The School was located on a 14 acre site near the 19th Century site of Brook Farm, and in the watershed of the upper Charles River. The school was designed by architects Antonio DeCastro and Samuel Glaser. It was built by The Jackson Construction Company of Dedham.
Brook Farm: Massachusetts George Ripley Sophia Ripley: 1841 1846 A Transcendent community. Transcendentalism is a religious and cultural philosophy based in New England. North American Phalanx: New Jersey Charles Sears 1841 1856 A Fourier Society community. The Fourier Society is based on the ideas of Charles Fourier, a French philosopher.
The farm was named for a shady brook that ran behind the property. The family moved to its current current location at the juncture of Lower Makefield, Newtown and Middletown townships in the 1960s.
Duxbury is a location that’s also pioneering the way towards a more sustainable future. Shellfish farmer Skip Bennett grew up on these waters and has become the go-to guy for all things oyster.
Minot Pratt (1805-1878) was a founder, a director and head farmer of the Brook Farm experimental community, a printer, a friend of noted Concord, Massachusetts, writers, Henry David Thoreau, Amos Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and a naturalist in Concord, Massachusetts.
The Narcotic Farm, also informally known as Narco, was operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Public Health. A second, smaller facility opened in Forth Worth, Texas.