The Fellowship Farm Cooperative Association was a Utopian anarchist community in the Stelton section of Piscataway Township, New Jersey that was started in 1912.
History
The farm was inaugurated on Thanksgiving Day in 1912. 263 acres (1.06 km) of active farmland was purchased by Ernest H. Liebel from J. C. Letson in Stelton and each member was leased 1-acre (4,000 m) of land. The project was supervised by G. E. Littlefield of Massachusetts. An advertisement was placed in the New York Call to attract people to the project. Samuel Goldman (1882-1969) began building the Goldman House in the Modern School colony in 1915. Also in 1915 members of the Ferrer movement bought adjacent land and started the Ferrer Colony and Modern School and they would eventually share a cooperative store.
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References
- ^ Perdita Buchan (2007). Utopia, New Jersey: travels in the nearest Eden. ISBN 9780813541785.
- Maxine N. Lurie and Marc Mappen (2004). Encyclopedia of New Jersey. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813533254.
- Peter Genovese (2007). New Jersey Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat. ISBN 9780762741120.
- "... New Jersey Co-operative Farm" (PDF). The New York Times. November 7, 1912. Retrieved 2009-09-25.
- New Jersey, a Guide to Its Present and Past. Federal Writers' Project. 2007. ISBN 9781603540292.
- Mark Sceurman. Weird NJ. Weird NJ.
- Randall Gabrielan (June 2001). Piscataway Township. ISBN 9780738504391.
- Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman (2003). Uncle Sam's House, Anarchy in Piscataway. Weird NJ. ISBN 9780760739792.
- Laurence R. Veysey (November 1978). The communal experience: anarchist and mystical communities in twentieth ... ISBN 9780226854588.