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This is a list of intentional communities. An intentional community is a planned residential community designed from the start to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, or spiritual vision and often follow an alternative lifestyle.
Founded by German religious separatists who wanted religious freedom in America. Old Economy Village: Pennsylvania George Rapp: 1824 1906 A Harmonites Village. The Harmony Society is a Christian theosophy and pietist society founded in Iptingen, Germany, in 1785. Nashoba: Tennessee Frances Wright: 1825 1828 An abolitionist, free-love community ...
Fort Pitt Farms Christian Community is a Christian Community of Dariusleut Hutterite origin and of many Hutterite traditions, but that is fully autonomous since 1999. It is located in Frenchman Butte, Saskatchewan, Canada close to Fort Pitt Provincial Park. Its spiritual leaders are Reuben Walter and Ben Walter.
Freed Afro-American Community in Rocky Point HM Long Island. The BCALH historic district was designated in 2005 and is an attempt at preserving the history and culture of the people still living in that area. The Christian Avenue community is a "distinct and indigenous way of life that has survived in Setauket for centuries." Threatened in 2007 ...
A detailed history of the community networks that came together to recreate the Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC) is presented in the 1996 paper titled "Inclusive Association of Intentional Communities: Community Network Histories Related to the Fellowship: 1940s-1990s" by A. Allen Butcher (22 pages, revised 1999, see the free PDF at ...
Christian is the author of two books designed to help people who want to join or start their own ecovillages or other intentional communities.In Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities, she uses success stories, cautionary tales, and step-by-step advice to cover typical time-frames and costs; the role of founders; getting started as a group ...
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African Americans in the United States have a unique history of homesteading, in part due to historical discrimination and legacies of enslavement. Black American communities were negatively impacted by the Homestead Act's implementation, which was designed to give land to those who had been enslaved and other underprivileged groups. The act ...