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Home, sweet anarchist home
by George Howland Jr | 6 Jan 2015
Home, circa 1890s
In the late 1800s, three families Frank Odell were looking for a place
pooled their resources to create to form an intentional community. All
Home, an anarchist community on a three men and their families had
peninsula in Puget Sound where they been part of Glennis, a short-lived
embraced radical views and free socialist community in the Cascade
love. Historian Justin Wadland foothills. Its failure did not
writes about the radical experiment discourage the families. After all,
in his book “Trying Home: the Rise during the late 19th century,
and Fall of an Anarchist Utopia on attempts to create utopian
Puget Sound” communities were commonplace
among a small minority of dreamers
In Feb. 1896, three men constructed on Puget Sound, across the United
a small boat and floated from States and throughout Europe.
Tacoma out onto Puget Sound, until
they came to the piece of land that The three families pooled their
they had heard would be a fine resources, bought the land and
location for their new community. called their new community “Home.”
George Allen, Oliver Verity and Home lasted until 1919, adopted
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