American Studies at Eastern Connecticut State University

Originally posted as a reference to the Fall 2004 AMS 420 American Studies Seminar, Utopian America
  
Utopian Communities
Sites of  American Utopian Communities Open to the Public



Hancock Shaker Village
 


View at Pleasant Hill
 
    


Scene at New Harmony



Houses at Amana
Shannon Bell photo
 


Bishop Hill

 
Single Men's House, Salem

 Shaker Communities

Mt Lebanon Shaker Village
New Lebanon, New York

Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village
Poland Spring, Maine

Canterbury Shaker Village
Canterbury, New Hampshire 

Hancock Shaker Village
Pittsfield Massachusetts

Shakertown at Pleasant Hill
Harrodsburg, Kentucky

Shaker Historical Museum
Shaker Heights, Ohio

Enfiled Shaker Museum
Enfield, New Hampshire

Harmonists

Historic Harmony
Harmony, Pennsylvania

Old Economy Village
Ambridge, Pennsylvania

New Harmony
New Harmony, Indiana    

Other Utopian Communities

Oneida Community Mansion House
Oneida, New York

Amana Colonies
Amana, Iowa

Zoar Village State Memorial
Zoar, Ohio

Bishop Hill Heritage Association
Bishop Hill, Illinois

Icarian Living History Museum
Nauvoo, Illinois

Ephrata Cloister
Ephrata, Pennsylvania

Historic Bethel German Colony
Bethel, Missouri

Old Aurora Colony Museum
Aurora, Oregon

Old Salem
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Korehan Unity
Estero, Florida

Communal Studies Association
(Lots more links)

Additional reference: Gerald L. Gutek and Patricia Gutek,  Visiting Utopian Communities: A Guide to the Shakers, Moravians, and Others. University of South Carolina Press.

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