The Fellowship Farm Cooperative Association was a Utopian anarchist community in the Stelton section of Piscataway Township, New Jersey that was started in 1912.[1][2][3]
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The farm was inaugurated on Thanksgiving Day in 1912.[1] 263 acres (1.06 km2) of active farmland was purchased by Ernest H. Liebel from J. C. Letson in Stelton and each member was leased 1-acre (4,000 m2) of land. The project was supervised by G. E. Littlefield of Massachusetts.[4] An advertisement was placed in the New York Call to attract people to the project.[5] Samuel Goldman (1882-1969) began building the Goldman House in the Modern School colony in 1915.[6][7][8] 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.[9]
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- ^ a b 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.