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Fellowship Farm Cooperative Association

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The Fellowship Farm Cooperative Association was a Utopian anarchist community in the Stelton section of Piscataway Township, New Jersey that was started in 1912.

History

The farm was inaugurated on Thanksgiving Day in 1912. 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. An advertisement was placed in the New York Call to attract people to the project. Samuel Goldman (1882-1969) began building the Russian House in the Modern School colony in 1915. 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.

References

Fellowship Farm Cooperative Association Wikipedia