Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In April 1814, Georg Rapp, spiritual leader of the Harmony Society, left Harmony, Pennsylvania, with two of the group's members to look for a new town site-one with large tracts of available land, a navigable waterway, and sites for water-driven mills.By May of that year, a promising spot on the Wabash River, north of the Ohio River confluence, had been purchased, and the first Harmonists arrived in June. 1 Soon after, in August 1814, the town streets were surveyed, likely based on a plan drawn up by Georg Rapp's adopted son, Frederick, who was in Pennsylvania at the time. 2 Construction of the new town proceeded at a rapid pace, and by May 1815, the last of the Harmonists had joined their Michael Strezewski is an archaeologist and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Southern Indiana.His research interests include the archaeology of New Harmony, the Fur Trade period, and the Middle Woodland cultures of southwest Indiana.
Source: Communal Societies
Author: Michael Strezewski
Institution: Fairleigh Dickinson University
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2944833112