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Brook Farm

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Brook Farm

Farm in western Roxbury, near Boston, Massachusetts, USA, which was the scene of an idealistic experiment in communal living in 1841–47, led by George Ripley (1802–1880), a former Unitarian minister. Financial difficulties and a fire led to the community's dissolution.



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Here is a new enterprise of Brook Farm, of Skeneateles, of Northampton: why so impatient to baptize them Essenes, or Port-Royalists, or Shakers, or by any known and effete name?
Essays, Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
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