Robert Friedland graduated from college in 1974 and took over the supervision of an apple orchard his uncle owned. Friedland turned the farm into a spiritual utopian community, where hippies, Hari Krishnas, and Hindus co...

In 1881, a dentist named John Ballou Newbrough wro...  ...ish.”5Newbrough and his Faithists founded a commune called Shalam in New Mexico to raise their orphan...  ...ans. They eventually took in 28 children, but the commune did not last long enough to become as well known...

In the early 1980s, Baghwan Shree Rajneesh brought his cult Osho from India to Wasco County, Oregon, and began a community of around 7,000 people called Rajneeshpuram. As the community expanded, they needed more space, b...

Hippies found a great place to live in 1971- an ab...  ...d it “Freetown Christiania.” It was a commune based on independence, collective ownership, and...

The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo...  ...ved to Oneida, New York, where they founded a new commune in 1848.THANKS FOR SHARINGIn the Oneida Community...  ...er the United States and Europe came to visit the commune , and most came away with the impression of a happ...

Every once in a while a proud little communi...  ...achusetts, by George [wiki] and Sophia Ripley.The commune was built on a 200-acre farm with four buildings...  ...uisa May) and Charles Lane founded the Fruitlands Commune in June 1843, in Harvard, Massachusetts.Structure...  ...tructured around the British ref...