The New Harmony Communities (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The New Harmony Communities

On the Indiana. Side of the Wabash river, fifty-one miles above its mouth, the village of New Harmony lies within the shelter of a long range of encircling hills. In summer New Harmony's dooryards are shaded by a veritable forest of maple and gate trees, above which, here and there, rise the gables and dormer-windowed roofs of quaint buildings suggestive of another country and another century. The vandal hand of business enterprise has not been heavily laid upon this place, and thus it happens that the New Harmony of to-day bears everywhere the impress of its earlier and greater years. Houses reared by German com munists in the second decade of the century, and in the twenties occupied by members of the Owenite communi ties, still stand in New Harmony's quiet streets. A large and handsomely housed public library, rich in the heritage of collections of books brought to the place by the scholars and savants of community days, - ~more than this, the char acter of the present population, which includes a large number of the descendants of the Owenite communists, suggests a time when New Harmony was the promised land of Owenism, - a social experiment station towards which the eyes of the whole world were turned and not in vain, if we take into account the several great movements which in later years have made the New Harmony failure appear a wonderful success.

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