Codman, John Thomas

Brook Farm was a cooperative community, based on a transcendental utopian model, that was founded in West Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1841. In 1844, it began to run on a model inspired by Charles Fourier and in 1845 officially declared itself a Fourierist Phalanx, but folded by 1847.

George Ripley (1802-1880) was an American Unitarian minister, critic, journalist, and social reformer associated with the Transcendentalist movement. He was an 1823 graduate of Harvard College and also studied at the Harvard Divinity School. In1841 he founded the Utopian community of Brook Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.

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