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Show SOCIAL EXPERIMENT WILL BE RECALLED , A social experiment in Amir- i lea's pioneer life is dus for a memorial, as Indiana reports pasags of a bill .providing for the' restoration of buildings and sites of New Harmony's one-time com-' munal settlement ' "Founded by German religious colonists in 1814, New Harmony was later bought out by the British Brit-ish philanthropist, Robert Owen," -says the National Geographic society. so-ciety. , The community gained fame In the nineteenth century as the , scene of a 'new order,' in which properly was generally owned, although its use wss regulated according to age. The expert- , ment failed as such, but ths modern mod-ern town of New Harmony, with its 1200 or so inhabitants, still benefits by ths activities of the many scientists and educators at-' tracted there in its heyday. Headquarters Head-quarters of ths U. S. geological survey was ones located there, in 1859, and there was founded first ! American woman's club with a written constitution. Today, still only a small town, New Harmony has a library of more than 28,000 volumes." |