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Bishop Hill Colony is a historic district in Bishop Hill, Illinois. Bishop Hill was the site of a utopian religious community which operated as a commune. It was founded in 1846 by Swedish pietist Eric Janson and his followers. The community was named Bishop Hill after the parish of Biskopskulla in Uppland, Sweden.
Bishop Hill is a village in Henry County, Illinois, United States, along the South Edwards River. The population was 113 at the 2020 census. [ 2 ] It is the home of the Bishop Hill State Historic Site , a park operated by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency .
Included in the buildings at Bishop Hill are a visitor's center, a museum, the colony church and a hotel. Bishop Hill is need of repairs and Anderson and Weaver are spearheading an effort to get ...
Today visitors can enter the two-story frame Greek Revival-style Colony Church (1848), part of which was once used as single-room apartments by colony residents and which features a museum about Bishop Hill's history and reproductions of Colony artifacts, the three-story stuccoed-brick Colony Hotel (1852-ca. 1860), the small two-story frame ...
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The Ballad of Bishop Hill, Quest for Utopia. Montezuma, Illinois: Sutherland Publishing. ISBN 9780930942021. Swanson, Troy (1998). "Those Crazy Swedes: Outside Influence on the Bishop Hill Colony". Nobler things to View: Collected Essays on the Erik-Janssonists. Bishop Hill, Illinois: Bishop Hill Heritage Association. OCLC 44105531. Wyman, Mark.
Bishop Hill Colony: Illinois Eric Jansson: 1846 1862 A Swedish Pietist religious commune. Spring Farm Colony Wisconsin 6 Fourierite Families [2] 1846 1848 A Fourier Society community. Utopia: Ohio Josiah Warren: 1847 1876 Decentralized community based on equitable commerce. [7] Oneida Community: New York John H. Noyes: 1848 1880 A Utopian ...