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| 1732 - Vincennes, IN, is founded by French fur traders
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|  1737 Feb 9 - Birth of Thomas Paine in Thetford, Norfolk, England
 1739 Jan 6 - Birth of David Dale in Stewarton, Ayrshire, Scotland
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| 1743 Apr 14 - Birth of Thomas Jefferson in Shadwell, VA
1743 - Philosophical Society is founded by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia, PA
|  1746 Jan 12 - Birth of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi in Zurich, Switzerland
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|  1757 Sep 6 - Birth of Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette, Marquis de Lafayette, in Chavaniac, France
 1757 Nov 1 - Birth of George Rapp in Iptingen, Germany
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| 1767 Mar 15 - Birth of Andrew Jackson in the Carolinas
| 1763 Sep 6 - Birth of William Maclure in Ayr, Scotland
 1766 Nov 6 - Birth of Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo Botta in San Giorgio Canavese, Piedmont, Italy
1769 Aug 15 - Birth of Napoleon Bonaparte in Ajaccio, Corsica
| 1770s
| 1778 - Louisville, KY, is founded by George Rogers Clark [1752-1818] & named for King Louis XVI of France for help during the American Revolution
1778 July 4 - George Rogers Clark captures Kaskaskia, IL, on Mississippi River
1788 - Cincinnati, OH, is settled & named "Losantiville."
| 1776 July 4 - Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, PA
1777 June 13 - Marquis de Lafayette lands on North Island, SC
1777 July 31 - Marquis de Lafayette (age 19) meets George Washington (age 45) in Philadelphia, PA
1777 Sep 11 - Marquis de Lafayette is wounded in Battle of Brandywine, PA
| 1770 - Birth of Francis Joseph Nicholas Näef in Alsace, France
1770 - Birth of Francois Andre Michaux in France
 1771 May 14 - Birth of Robert Owen in Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales
1772 Apr 7 - Birth of Charles Fourier in Besançon, France
1774 Apr 11 - Wedding of Marquis de Lafayette (age 16) & Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles (age 14)
 1776 - Birth of Gerard Troost in 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
1777 Apr 20 - Marquis de Lafayette sails from Bordeaux to South Carolina
1778 - Birth of Charles Alexandre Lesueur in Le Havre, France
1779 - Birth of Frances Trollope in Bristol, England
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| 1781 Oct 19 - Marquis de Lafayette blocks Corwallis at Seige of Yorktown
1787 Jun 27 - Birth of Thomas Say in Philadelphia, PA
1789 Sep 25 - Bill of Rights
| 1783 - Birth of Marie Duclos Fretageot in France
1784 - Birth of Stedman Whitwell in Coventry, England
1785 Jan 15 - Birth of Abram Combe in Edinburgh, Scotland
1785 - Thomas Jefferson becomes US minister in France (until 1789)
1786 - New Lanark mill on River Clyde in Scotland is founded by David Dale & Richard Arkwright
1789 July 14 - Storming of the Bastille (Lafayette sends key to Washington)
1789 Aug - Declaration of the Rights of Man & of the Citizen
| 1790s
1790 - Name of "Losantville" is changed to Cincinnati to honor war veterans in the Society of the Cincinnati
1798 - Site of Mount Vernon, IN, is discovered at highest point on Ohio River below Cincinnati, OH
| 1796 June 1 - Tennessee is admitted as 16th state
1796 - William Maclure has taken up residence in Philadelphia & become a US citizen
1798 - Birth of Josiah Warren in Boston, MA
1799 Dec 14 - Death of George Washington at Mount Vernon, VA
| Late 1790 - In Manchester Robert Owen borrows £100 from his brother William & sets up independently with a mechanic named Jones as a manufacturer of the new spinning mules.
1791 Mar 13 - "The Rights of Man" by American Thomas Paine - "eagerly read [in England] by reformers, Protestant dissenters, democrats, London craftsman & the skilled factory-hands of the new industrial north... Paine is tried in absentia & convicted for seditious libel against the [British] Crown." EXCERPTS ON-LINE
1792-95 - Robert Owen is manager of Peter Drinkwater's Piccadilly Mill.
1792 Aug - Marquis de Lafayette is arrested (in prison until 1797)
1794 - Birth of William Augustus Twigg in London
1794 - British authorities investigate James Wright (Frances' father) for printing & distributing Thomas Paine's "The Rights of Man"
1795 Sep 6 - Birth of Frances Wright in Dundee, Scotland
1798 Winter - Frances, her older brother & younger sister Camilla are orphaned & raised separately but left with substantial interitence
1798 Dec 7 - Pestalozzi opens school in Stan, Switzerland
1798 - In the Lomersheimer Declaration George Rapp & his followers refuse to serve in the military or attend Lutheran schools
1799 Sep - Wedding of Robert Owen & Caroline Dale (daughter of David Dale)
| 1800s
| 1800 - Vincennes is capital of Indiana Territory (until 1813).
| 1801 Aug 6-13 - Cane Ridge Revival in Cane Ridge, KY - part of the Second Great Awakening. Barton Stone is one of 18 ministers who attend 20,000 participants."
1801 Oct 14 - Birth of Lucy Way Sistare in New London, CT
1804 - George Rapp founds Harmonie, PA, on Ohio River
1804-05 - Lewis & Clark expedition
1806 - Francis Joseph Nicholas Näef moves from France to America & changes his last name to Neef
1807 Dec 14 - Comet over Weston, CT. Its study by Benjamin Silliman [1779-1864] starts science at Yale University.
| 1808 - "Sketch of A Plan and Method of Education" by Joseph Neef is published in Philadelphia (first work on educational method to be written in English in the USA). BOOK |
1809 - Under contract to William Maclure, Francis Joseph Nicholas Neef opens a school for boys at the village, Falls of Schuylkill, near Philadelphia, PA
 | 1809 - William Maclure introduces first geological map of USA. MAP |
1809 Feb 12 - Birth of Abraham Lincoln in Hodgenville, KY
1809 - Birth of Albert Brisbane in Batavia, NY
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1800 Jan 1 - Robert Owen becomes manager of the textile mills at New Lanark, Scotland. Among other improvements, he will build the "Institute for the Formation of Character" & the world's first infant school. |
1801 - Birth of Robert Dale Owen in Glasgow, Scotland
1802 - Birth of William Owen in _____, Scotland
1802 - Francis Joseph Nicholas Näef founds a Pestalozzian orphan school in Paris (which William Maclure will visit)
1803 - William Maclure visits France & Switzerland
 1803 - Fanny’s uncle William is killed in India, willing half of his property in Bengal, Behar, Orissa & Benares to his nieces
1805 - William Maclure visits Pestalozzi at his school in Yverdon, Switzerland
1806 - Fanny & her little sister Camilla are reunited (& remain very close for most of the rest of their lives)
1807 - Birth of David Dale Owen in ______, Scotland?
1807 - Death of Lafayette’s "beloved wife Adrienne" in France
1809 - Death of Fanny’s brother in a skirmish with the French (By age 14 Fanny has lost her mother, father, brother & grandfather.)
1807 May 28 - Birth of Louis Agassiz in Haut-Vully, Switzerland
| 1810s
| 1813 Corydon is capital of Indiana Territory (until 1816) & of the State of Indiana (until 1825).
1814 - New Harmony is established by George Rapp on Wabash River in Indiana
1814 Aug - Weber Cabin, West Street (reconstructed)
1814 Nov 11 - Posey County is formed from Gibson & Warrick counties
| c.1815 - Harmonist labyrinth. Reconstructed in 1939. MONUMENT |
1816 Nov 7 - Indiana is admitted as 19th state
| 1818 - Rapp Granary is completed (= David Dale Owen's laboratory 1843-59, restored & survives today) |
1819 - Eigner Cabin, West Street (reconstructed)
1819 - Harmony has vineyards, a distillery, a brewery, a winery & a steam powered wool carding & spinning factory
| 1811 Sep 3 - Birth of John Humphrey Noyes in Brattleboro, VT
1812 - Academy of Natural Sciences is established in Philadelphia (now part of Drexel Univ.). Gerard Troost is its first president.
c1813 - An Owenite Society is founded in Philadelphia
1815 Jan 8 - Battle of New Orleans is won by Andrew Jackson
1816 - William Maclure brings naturalist Charles Lesueur to Philadelphia
1817 - William Maclure becomes 2nd president of the Academy of Natural Sciences (remains so until his death in 1840)
1817 - William Maclure starts taking Thomas Say on his own expeditions
1818 - William Maclure's second geological paper. PAPER
1818 - Benjamin Silliman launches first science journal, American Journal of Science
1818 - Frances Wright's "Altorf" (a play about Swiss independence in 1815) receives standing ovation in NYC, but Fanny cannot reveal its author is not a man. PLAY
1819 - Panic of 1819 (first major peacetime financial crisis in USA, collapse of American economy persists through 1821)
1819 - Memphis, TN, is founded by Andrew Jackson & others
| 1810 Jan 6 - Birth of Richard Dale Owen (Robert's youngest son) in Lanarkshire, Scotland
1812 - Frances Wright is strongly influenced by - "Storia della guerra dell' Independenza d'America" by Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo Botta (1809) - read in English translation? BOOK
1813 - Robert Owen establishes Village Store in New Lanark
1813 - Robert Owen arranges for new partners to own New Lanark
1813 - "A New View of Society" by Robert Owen. REPORT
1813 - Fanny moves to home of her great-uncle Prof James Mylne, Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow College.
 | 1815 - First geological map of England & Wales by William Smith [1769-1839] MAP |
 1815 June 18 - Napoleon is decisely defeated at Waterloo in Belgium
1817 - "Relief for the Manufacturing Poor" by Robert Owen. He proclaims "8 hours labour, 8 hours recreation, 8 hours rest." REPORT
 | 1817 - Architect Stedman Whitwell makes a model of Owen's ideal community. MODEL |
1818 May 5 - Birth of Karl Marx in Trier, Prussia
1818 - Sisters Frances & Camilla Wright leave Scotland to visit New York
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1824
1822 - Community House #2 (survives today)
1822 - Fauntleroy & Scholle houses (survive today)
 | 1824 - Harmonist Dormitory (now called Thrall's Opera House), 615 East Church Street (survives today). "The Owen community used it for multi-family dwelling, warehouse, dance hall & lecture hall. In 1859, the building was turned it into a theatre... In 1911 it became a movie theatre. In 1913 a garage & gas station. Restored after 1964 by the State of Indiana. Now used as a conference & wedding venue." |
1824 - Rappites decide to sell New Harmony. One reason is that it's so close to slavery.
1824 Dec 16 - Robert Owen arrives in New Harmony
| 1821 - Thomas Say becomes curator of American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, PA
1821 - Madame Marie Duclos Fretageot organizes a Pestalozzian school in Philadelphia, PA
1821 - Pestalozzian educator Francis Joseph Nicholas Neef leaves Philadelphia & turns to farming near Floydsburg, KY
1824 - George Rapp founds Old Economy Village, PA
1824 - Pestalozzian educator William de Phiquepal d'Arusmont arrives from France to teach in Philadelphia
1824 Aug 15 - Marquis de Lafayette arrives in Staten Island, NY
1824 Nov 4-8 - Lafayette visits Jefferson at Monticello, VA
1824 Nov - Frances Wright joins Lafayette at Monticello, VA. (With him she meets Thomas Jefferson, Henry Clay, James Madison, James Monroe & Andrew Jackson.)
1824 - William Maclure returns to Philadelphia from Spain
1824 Nov - Robert Owen, William Owen (age 22) & Captain Donald McDonald arrive in USA
1824 Nov - Robert Owen visits Madame Fretageot's Pestalozzian school in Philadelphia
| 1820 May 1 - "Report to the County of Lanark" by Robert Owen. Commissioned by Archibald James Hamilton & other members of "a committee of gentlemen" to relieve a Radical revolt in Glasgow. Owen recommends a new form of pauper relief - the cooperative village. REPORT
1821 - Archibald James Hamilton, Abram Combe & other Owenites form the Edinburgh Practical Society to operate a co-operative store & a school
1821 - Frances Wright's "Views of Society & Manners in America" (her correspondence with Mrs. Rabina Craig Millar, widow of Mrs. Mylne's brother) is published in London (& widely acclaimed) BOOK
c1821 - Frances Wright is mentored by Jeremy Bentham about women's rights, slavery, death penalty, physical punishment, freedom of speech, divorce & homosexuality
| 1821 - Frances Wright (26) begins liaison with Lafayette (64) in Paris. (His estate La Grange "dazzles her with its park, 5 towers, moat, menagerie, aviary & cider presses.") |
1822 - Frances Wright publishes "A Few Days in Athens," her fictional account of Epicurus [341–270 BC]. "Why did I wait so long to read this masterpiece?" Click here for FULL TEXT ON-LINE
1824 Spring - Frances Wright leaves France & goes to England
1822 - "Mr. Owen's Plan for the Permanent Relief of the Working Classes," London. FULL TEXT ON-LINE
1822 Oct 20 - Birth of Thomas Hughes in Uffington, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), England
 1824 - William Maclure leaves Spain (where he tried to found an agricultural school) & returns to the USA
1824 Aug - Robert Owen meets Rapp agent Richard Flower in New Lanark
1824 Oct 2 - Robert Owen sails from Liverpool to implement a "New Moral World" in the USA (accompanied by his 22-year old son William Owen & friend Captain Donald McDonald)
| 1825
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1825 Jan 1 - Robert Owen agrees to purchase New Harmony (including 180 structures) from the Rappites for $150,000
1825 Jan 3 - Robert Owen departs for Europe (leaving son William in charge)
1825 Mar 19 - "The Misses Wright [arrive] on their way to New Orleans, to meet the Marquis De LaFayette."
1825 Early May -  Josiah Warren (America’s first anarchist) arrives in New Harmony (returns to Cincinnati in 1827)
1825 Apr 13 - Robert Owen reappears in New Harmony
1925 Apr 25 - Robert Owen speech. EXCERPTS ON-LINE
1925 May 1 - Constituion is adopted. EXCERPTS ON-LINE
1825 June 5 - Robert Owen leaves New Harmony to go to Scotland
| 1825 Feb 25 - Frances Wright is present when Robert Owen addresses Congress about "A New System of Society." ADDRESS
1925 Mar 5 - Robert Owen addresses Congress a second time. ADDRESS
1825 Feb 23 - Lafayette begins his tour of southern & western states.
1825 Apr 11-15 - Lafayette visits New Orleans, LA.
Fanny Frances Wright catches up with LaFayette in New Orleans.
1825 May 4 - Lafayette visits Andrew Jackson at the Hermitage near Nashville, TN. .
1825 May 8-9 - Lafayette's steamboat sinks at the Falls of the Ohio near Louisville, KY.
1825 Spring - Robert Owen visits Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, VA
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1825 Fall - Gerard Troost arrives in New Harmony (moves to Tennessee in 1827)
1825 Oct - "A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in the United States" by Frances Wright REPORT
| 1825 Dec 8 - Sailing under a flag in French ("Philanthrope"), the "Philanthropist" (an 85x14 foot keelboat) departs Pittsburgh, PA. Image shows a keelboat passing a flatboat. |
About 40 persons are aboard:
William Maclure,
Robert Owen,
Robert Dale Owen (who kept a journal),
naturalist Thomas Say,
naturalist Charles Alexandre Lesueur (who drew 127 sketches),
educator Marie Fretageot,
student Achilles Fretageot,
Victor DuPalais,
musician Virginia DuPalais,
educator William Phiquepal d'Arusmont,
artist Balthazar Abernasser,
doctor William Price,
Hannah Fisher Price,
 Helen Fisher,
carpenter John Beal,
servant Charles Schmidt,
artist Lucy Way Sistare
& about 20 others)
1825 Dec 11 - "Philanthropist" is stuck in ice at Safe Harbor station (until Jan 9)
1825 - Madame Fretageot reads writings of Charles Fornier to passengers in French
1825 Dec 23 - William Maclure & Madame Fretageot visit Beaver, PA (until Dec 31)
1825 Xmas - Thomas Say tells Robert Dale & Phiquepal about Native Americans
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1825 Sept 6 - Frances & Camilla Wright are present when Lafayettte sets sail (on his 68th birthday) from Washington, DC, to return to France on the brand new US frigate "Brandywine" |
 | 1825 Late Oct - Frances Wright visits Memphis, TN, & buys 2,000 acres on Wolf River which she names Nashoba (the Chickasaw word for wolf). Lafayette offers $8,000, but Frances turns him down, & no one else is willing to invest. |
| 1826
1826 Jan 5 - Maclure & Mme Fretageot visit Steubenville & Wheeling (until Jan 10)
1826 Jan 7 - Three come aboard: Donald Macdonald, artist Virginia DuPalais & architect Stedman Whitwell (who made a 6-foot-square model of New Harmony)
1826 Jan 8 - Passengers cut 150-yard pathway in ice (drawing by Charles Lesueur)
1826 Jan 9 - Judge Benjamin Tappan puts his son aboard in Steubenville, OH
1826 Jan 12 - Robert Owen arrives in New Harmony & makes speech naming the "Boatload of Knowledge"
1826 Jan 17 - Lecture in Cincinnati by John Cleves Symmes about center of earth
1826 Jan 19 - Accidentally find Pestalozzian Joseph Neef in Louisville, KY
1826 Jan 20? - Pass the "thrilling" Falls of the Ohio at Clarksville, IN
1826 Jan 23 - "Philanthropist" arrives Mount Vernon, IN (15 miles overland to New Harmony)
1826 Feb 5 - Second constitution is adopted
1826 Mar 4 - Constitution is overridden, Robert Owen is given full power to run New Harmony
1826 Mar 20 - Pestilozzians Joseph Neef & his wife Eloisa Buss Neef arrive in New Harmony
| 1826 May - Both Churches in New Harmony. Sketch by Charles Alexandre Lesueur. From Album de vues des Etats-Unis dessins exécutés entre 1816 à 1827. Localisation: Blérancourt, musée national de la Coopération franco-américaine. |
1826 May 26 - William Maclure proposes reorganization of New Harmony
1826 - William Maclure starts "School of Industry" in New Harmony. Phiquepal teaches printing. John Beal teaches carpentry.
1826 July 4 - On 50th anniversary of Declaraion of [Political] Independence, Robert Owen makes "A Declaration of Mental Independence," attacking the "three 'monstrous evils' of private property, religion & marriage." EXCERPTS ON-LINE
1826 Sept - Engraver Joseph Nee Cornelius Tiebout arrives in New Harmony to print scientific works
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1826 - "In abolitionist newspapers Frances pleads for stonemasons, carpenters, teachers & investors, but her pleas go unanswered." |
1826 July 4 - Death of Thomas Jefferson (age 83) at Monticello, VA
1826 Dec - Wright deeds Nashoba to 10 trustees: General Lafayette, William Maclure, Robert Owen, Robert Dale Owen, C.D. Golden, Richeson Whitby (a shy Quaker from New Harmony), Robert Jennings, George Flowers (an emancipator & the only one with farming skills), Camilla Wright & James Richardson (who would "later destroy the reputations of Nashoba & Frances Wright").
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| 1827
1827 Jan 4 - Wedding of Thomas Say (age 40) & Lucy Way Sistare (age 26)
1827 Mar 28 - In the New Harmony Gazette, "Robert Dale & William Owen admit that they view the New Harmony venture as a failure."
1827 May - By now, "New Harmony has "ten different sub-communities on the estate."
1827 June 1 - Robert Owen departs New Harmony for Scotland after making at least two "farewell" addresses.
1827 June 22 - From Boston Recorder & Telegraph, Boston, MA, page 3: "New Harmony--Mr. Owen has sold a great part of his property at N. Harmony, leased the remainder, and left it on his return from Scotland. W. Maclure, in the Philadelphia Gazette, warns people not to trust Mr. Owen on his account."
1827 July 1 - Robert Owen departs for Scotland [sic].
1827 - "American Ichthyology" by Charles Alexandre Lesueur (2-1/2 parts). BOOK
1827 - "Frances [Wright] visits New Harmony again, hoping to renew her optimism. The colony has fallen into angry bickering..."
1827 Nov - William Maclure names Madame Fretageot & Frances Wright as trustees of his will
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1827 - "Unwilling to give up the dream, Robert Dale Owen leaves New Harmony & joins Frances at Nashoba."
1827 - Frances Wright & Robert Dale Owen leave Nashoba & go to Europe (so she can recover from malaria)
1827 - Wedding of Camilla Wright & Richeson Whitby.
1827 - Gerard Troost goes to Nashville, TN, to be professor of mineralogy & and chemistry, then State Geologist (1831-50)
1827 - Nashoba fails (as Wright is returning to USA)
| 1827 - Frances Wright visits Mary Shelley & tries unsuccessfully to persuade her to move to Nashoba, TN
1827 Late - Fanny leaves England and returns to USA
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1829
1828 Jan - Frances Wright & Frances Trollope arrive in New Harmony from New Orleans
1828 June - Frances Wright settles in New Harmony & becomes co-owner & co-editor of the New Harmony Gazette. PERIODICAL
1828 July 4 - Fanny's Independence Day Speech - "first major speech by a woman in the USA." EXCERPTS ON-LINE
1828 - Geologists David Dale Owen & Richard Dale Owen arrive in New Harmony
1828 - Wedding of lawyer William Augustus Twigg & Virginia DuPalais (neice of Charles Alexandre LeSueur)
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1828 - William Maclure starts publishing the "Disseminator of Useful Knowledge" -- "full of trivia about everything from home remedies to geometry." PERIODICAL |
| 1829 - John Beal house at 613 Church Street is constructed of existing materials from a Harmonist horse barn |
| 1828 Jan - Frances Wright & Frances Trollope arrive at Nashoba from Europe via New Orleans
1828 - Socialist & anti-Christian "Free Enquirer" is published by Fanny Wright & Robert Dale Owen in NY City (until 1832). PERIODICAL
1829 Jan - Camilla Wright suffers a terrible labor in Memphis. Bled 3 times by an incompetent doctor & nearly dies. Frances doen't see her newborn nephew Francis. Instead she commences a 6 lecture series at Masonic Hall in NY City.
1829 Mar 4 - Andrew Jackson becomes president
1829 Apr 13-21 - Eight-day debate in Cincinnati, OH, between Robert Owen (58) & Rev. Alexander Campbell (41) in a large Methodist church seating 1,200. Owen simply listed 'twelve' supposed truths & restated them over & over. Finally he yielded the floor to Campbell who then spent 12 hours explaining the rationale for Christianity."
| 1829 - "A DOWNWRIGHT GABBLER, or a goose that deserves to be hissed" - a hostile view of Wright's public lectures. CARICATURE |
| 1829 - Frances Wright completes a "Course of Popular Lectures" during which she "proposes the creation in every town of a Hall of Science or Temple of Reason, where citizens could see for themselves the fruits of science & of the republic." She decides to remain in NY City. LECTURES |
1829 Apr 26 - Fanny & Robert Dale open the "Hall of Science" in NY City. Walt Whitman will visit & praise her.
| 1828 - Robert Owen resigns all connection with the New Lanark mill
1829 May 29 - Death of scientist James Smithson in Genoa, Italy (leaves his fortune to the USA since his nephew has no heir)
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1831
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| 1830 - "American Conchology" by Thomas Say (in 7 sections until 1838). BOOK |
| 1831 - Sketch of New Harmony by Charles Alexandre Lesueur |
1832 Apr 12 - Wedding of Robert Dale Owen & Mary Jane Robinson, Robinson home, New Harmony. "I hereby consider myself as utterly divested of the unjust rights [which] an iniquitous law tacitly gives me over the person & property of another..."
1832 - "...Geology of the West Indian Islands" by William Maclure. BOOK
1832 Winter - Natural history study of New Harmony vicinity
1833 - Robert Dale Owen returns to New Harmony from New York City
1833 - Jane Dale Owen arrives in New Harmony
1834 Oct 10 - Death of naturalist Thomas Say. His wife Lucy Way Sistare Say returns to her family in the East. An obelisk marks his grave in yard of the Rapp-Maclure-Owen home. MONUMENT
| 1930 June - Wright delivers "parting address" in New York City. ADDRESS
1930 - Wright returns to Europe fearing "Fanny Wright ticket" will hurt the US election. Realizing she was doing more harm than good by having become synonymous with the struggle for workers rights Frances left for Europe with D'Arusmont & Camilla. To the chagrin of her friends there when she arrived she disappeared into an almost complete isolation. No one was to know of her pregnancy. She knew a baby out of wedlock was just the sort of scandal her enemies in America were hoping for. She had her daughter Sylva [sic] in secret."
1831 May - Alexis de Tocqueville & Gustave de Beaumont visit America (until February 1832).
1931 - "Moral Physiology" by Robert Dale Owen. BOOK
|  1830 Jan - Frances Wrights takes 30 former slaves & 18 of their children to Haiti
1830? - Death of Camilla Wright Whitby in Europe
1831 July 22 - Wedding of Frances Wright (age 36) & William Phiquepal d'Arusmont (age ?). Witnessed by Lafayette.
1832 Apr 14 - Birth of Frances' daughter Frances Sylvia Phiquepal d'Arusmont
1832 - "Domestic Manners of the Americans" by Frances Trollope. BOOK
1832 May - Prince Maximilian Alexander Philipp of Wied-Neuwied (1782-1867) leaves home for an expedition to the USA. He is an avid naturalist & intends to follow the route of Lewis & Clark, accompanied by artist Karl Bodmer who will make a visual record of the trip.
1832 - Robert Owen founds the National Equitable Labour Exchange system, a Time-based currency.
1832 - Robert Owen "opens the Gray's Inn Road Labour Exchange."
 1833 Feb - Marie Duclos Fretageot joins William Maclure in Mexico
1833 Aug - Death of Marie Duclos Fretageot in Mexico
1834 May 20 - Death of the Marquis de LaFayette in Paris, France
1834 Nov - Robert Owen "turns back to his plan for a community & founds a journal, the The New Moral World ."
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1835 - Wedding of Jane Dale Owen & civil engineer Robert Henry Fauntleroy in New Harmony
1836 Jan 15 - Constance Fauntleroy is born in Indianapolis, IN.
1837 Mar 23 - Triple wedding in New Harmony: William Dale Owen (35) & Mary Bolton. David Dale Owen (30) & Caroline Charlotte Neef. Richard Dale Owen (27) & Anne Eliza Neef. The 3 Owenes are sons of Robert Owen & Caroline Dale. The 2 Neefs are daughters of Francis Joseph Neef & Eloisa Buss.
1837 - David Dale Owen conducts first geological survey of Indiana. This is the birth of the Indiana Geological Survey.
1838 Apr 2 - Workingman's Institute is founded by William Maclure assisted by Achilles Fretageot with John Beal & Edward Cox as charter members (first of 144 WMI's in Indiana & 16 in Illinois)
| 1935 - Frances Wright & her husband move from France to Cincinnati, OH
1836 - "Letters on the Difficulties of Religion" by Catharine Beecher. BOOK
1837 - Mar 4 - Martin Van Buren becomes president
1837 - Panic of 1837 touches off a major recession that lasts until the mid-1840's
| 1838 - "In a sermon Rev. Moses Parks claims that Fanny Wright has abandoned her principles for the Whig Party. Fanny responds claiming that she has not been 'bought' by the Whig Party, nor has she abandoned her abolitionist politics." |
1838 - Wright begins to have health problems
| 1835 May - Robert Owen founds the "Association of all Classes of all Nations" with himself as "Preliminary Father"
1837 July - Charles Lesueur returns from New Harmony to Europe, settling in Paris & working at the Paris Museum. "Lesueur déclare 473 kg de matériel parmi lesquels des livres et des objets d'histoire naturelle."
| 1838 -
"A Bird's Eye View of a Community,"engraved by F.Bate, published by the Association of all Classes of all Nations,
proposed by Robert Owen Esq. [&] respectfully dedicated to the Landowners, Capitalists, Clergy, Instructors of Mankind, Wealth Producers, and Government of the British Empire... N.B. for further details consult the Works of Owen, Thompson, Combe, Morgan &c." ENGRAVING |
1939 - Harmony Hall Community, Queenwood Farm, Hampshire, England. The only colony other than New Harmony founded by Robert Owen himself. In 1839 his Association of Classes of All Nations acquired 500 acres at Queenwood farm. The community lasted until 1845.
| 1840s
1840 - Lawyer William Augustus Twigg visits Mexico to settle the estate of William Maclure
| 1840 - "...Shells of North America" by Thomas Say. BOOK |
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1841 - "The North American Silva" by Francois Andre Michaux (3 volumes). BOOK |
| 1844 - Rapp-Maclure-Owen house, Main & Church Streets ("Father George Rapp original owner, William Maclure later owner, Kenneth Dale Owen present owner. George Beal & John R. Hugo master carpenters.") |
1849 - David Dale Owen laboratory
1849 Summer - Geologists David Dale & Richard Dale Owen conduct a geological survey of northern Minnesota
1849 - Death of Robert Henry Fauntleroy - "a loss from which his wife Jane Dale Owen never fully recovered." Civil engineer Fauntleroy had become an officer in the US Coast Survey.
| 1840 -William Maclure is eulogized in Philadelphia, PA, by his friend
Dr. Samuel Morton.
1840 Nov - Martin Van Buren is voted out of office (loss by Fanny's "Jacksonian Democrats")
1841 - Albert Brisbane translates Charles Fournier's works into English. BOOK
1843 - Robert Dale Owen is elected to US House of Reps - Will introduce bill authorizing the Smithsonian Institution & will serve until 1847
1844 - Utopia, Ohio, is founded by followers of Charles Fourier but fails after 3 years & is reorganized by Josiah Warren
| 1847 Feb 24 - Robert Dale Owen, MC, designs the Seal of the Smithsonian Institution. |
1847-55 - Construction of the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, DC
1847 - Death of George Rapp in Harmony, PA
1848 - "England, the Civilizer" (a utopian forecast of a global federation justly governed & united in peace) BOOK
1847 - Swiss biologist Louis Agassiz [1807-1873] "takes up the mantle of science education at Harvard."
1848 July 19-20 - Convention on Women's Rights in Seneca Falls, NY
1848 - John Humphrey Noyes founds Oneida Community in Oneida, NY (a religious community practicing "Communalism, Complex Marriage, Male Continence, Mutual Criticism & Ascending Fellowship... Complex Marriage was abandoned in 1879, & the community soon broke apart with some members reorganizing as a joint-stock company [to make silverware]."
| 1840 Mar 23 - Death of William Maclure in Mexico.
1844 - "Biography, Notes, and Political Letters of Frances Wright D'Arusmont by
Frances Wright, Dundee, Scotland FULL TEXT ON-LINE
1846 Mar - Charles Lesueur is named curator of newly reestablished Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in Le Havre, France (which preserves more than 1,200 of his historic American sketches). MUSEUM
1846 Dec 12 - Death of Charles Lesueur - buried in Le Havre, France
1848 Feb - Initial publication of Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Frederick Engels. Last paragraph of Chapter III says, "The Owenites in England, and the Fourierists in France, respectively, oppose the Chartists and Reformists." BOOK
1849 - "Revolution in the Mind and Practice of the Human Race" by Robert Owen. "Emphasizes that the human character is formed by a combination of Nature & God & the circumstances of the individual's experience. A response to the European political upheavals of 1848 when the Paris Commune started & Marx & Engels published their Communist Manifesto, but it is also a recapitulation of his ideas on social reform. He is against the use of violence in the revolutionary process, because it mimicks the errors of their enemies instead of resorting to reason & kindness. BOOK
| 1850s
| 1851 - Robert Dale Owen puts public education in Indiana constitution
1854 - David Dale Owen is State Geologist of Kentucky (to 1857)
1857 - David Dale Owen is State Geologist of Arkansas (to 1859)
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1859 - David Dale Owen draws the Natural Steps in Pulaski County, Arkansas |
1859 - David Dale Owen is State Geologist of Indiana (to 1860)
1859 - First women’s club in America is started in New Harmony by Jane Dale Owen Fauntleroy’s daughter Constance Fauntlerou Runcie [1836-1911].
| 1850 - Divorce of Frances Wright (age 55) & William Phiquepal d'Amsmont
| 1852 Dec 13 - Death of Frances Wright (age 57) in Cincinnati, OH (falls on ice) - buried in Spring Grove Cemetery. MONUMENT |
1853 Jun 29 - "An Oration on Liberal Studies" by Orestes Brownson critisizes Fanny Wright. FULL TEXT ON-LINE
| 1855 - "Memoir of Fanny Wright, the Pioneer Woman in the Cause of Women's Rights" by Amos Gilbert is published in Cincinnati. Image is the frontispiece. MEMOIR |
1856 - James Dwight Dana [1813-1895] speaks to Yale alumni lamenting those "who still look with distrustful eyes on science." They seem, he said, "to see a monster swelling up before them which they cannot define, and hope may yet fade away as a dissolving mist." That specter was twofold: the shadow cast by geology on the Genesis account of the Earth’s history & the idea of evolution, which was already in the air."
1858 May 13-14 - Wright is praised by Ernestine Rose at National Woman's Rights Convention
1859 - "Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World" by Robert Dale Owen. BOOK
| 1850 June 9 - Robert Owen's "Farewell address to all classes of all nations," a lecture delivered at the Scientific Institution, John Street, Fitzroy Square, London. ADDRESS
1853 Dec 27 - Letter from widow Jane Owen Fauntleroy in Stuttgart to Richard Dale Owen in New Harmony: "I must tell you how well & comfortable we found our good old Father [in London]... how he talked to us of [spiritualism] with the same benignity with which he used to talk of the New System..."
1854-58 - Robert Dale Owen is US Minister Resident to the Two Sicilies. His sister, the widowed Jane Dale Owen Fauntleroy, & her four children live in Italy with him at least part of the time.
1854 - Robert Owen is converted to spirtualism after a series of "sittings" with American medium Maria B. Hayden
1857 May 12-25 - Congress of the Advanced Minds of the World, St. Martin's Hall, Long Acre, & Literary & Scientific Inst., London. "Called by Robert Owen to consider the best possible methods & peaceable means for gradually changing the present most ignorant, false, unjust, cruel, and evil system of human society..."
| 1858 Nov 17 - Death of Robert Owen (age 87) in the Bear Hotel (next door to the house in which he was born), Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales. His tomb & its wrought iron fence are restored in 1993. MONUMENT |
1859 Nov 24 - "On the Origin of Species" is published by Charles Darwin [1809-1882]
| 1860s
1860 - Richard Dale Owen succeeds his brother as Indiana state geologist (also ex officio member of Indiana University faculty)
1862 Feb 24 - Richard Dale Owen is placed in command of 4,000 Confederate prisoners of war at Camp Morton in Indianapolis, IN
1862 Sep 17 - Richard Dale Owen writes to President Lincoln about slavery
1867 - Schnee-Ribeyer-Elliott house
| 1863 Jan 1 - Emancipation Proclamation (Robert Dale Owen writes Lincoln 3 days before)
1865 - Wedding of Sylvia Phiquepal d'Arusmont & Dr. William Eugene Guthrie in New Jersey
| 1868 Mar 4 - Birth of William Norman Guthrie in Dundee, Scotland
| 1870s
| 1872 Aug 13 - Richard Dale Owen become first president of Purdue University (until 1874)
1874 - Harmonist church is demolished, but its "Door of Promise" is salvaged. MONUMENT
1875 July - Robert Dale Owen is confined to Indiana Hospital for the Insane (remains until Oct. 14).
| 1872 - "The Debatable Land Between this World & the Next" by Robert Dale Owen. BOOK
1877 June 24 - Death of Robert Dale Owen (age 53) at "Cosy Cove," his summer home on Lake George near Crosbyside, NY - intered in Village Cemetery at Lake George
1879 Mar 3 - Congress creates US Geological Survey
| 1870 Aug 31 - Birth of Maria Montessori in Chiaravalle, Marche, Italy
| 1879 - Robert Owen Memorial, Non-Conformists Section, Kensal Green Cemetery, London. Next to Reformers Memorial. MONUMENT |
| 1880s
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| 1880 - Rugby (an "experimental utopian colony"), is founded in Tennessee by English author Thomas Hughes [1822-1896]. "By late 1887, most of the original colonists had either died or moved away."
1886 Nov 15 - Death of Lucy Way Sistare Say presumably in the East
1889 - William Norman Guthrie is graduated from the University of the South, Sewanee, TN
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| 1885 - Reformers Memorial, Non-Conformists Section, Kensal Green Cemetery, London. Names Robert Owen, Frances Wright & many other reformers. Next to Robert Owen Memorial. Photo courtesy of TripAdvisor. MONUMENT |
1886 Aug 20 - Birth of Paul Tillich in Starzeddel, Brandenburg, Germany
| 1890s
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| 1893 Jan 4 - Wedding of William Norman Guthrie & Anna Norton Stuart of Sewanee, TN
1897 - "Modern Poet Prophets" by William Norman Guthrie. BOOK
| 1890 - "The Life, Times, and Labours of Robert Owen" by Lloyd Jones, London, 239 pages. FULL TEXT ON-LINE
| 1900s
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| 1902 July 26 - Death of Frances Sylvia Phquepal d'Arusmont (Mrs. William Eugene Guthrie) - buried with her mother in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, OH. MONUMENT |
| 1904 - Remains of James Smithson are brought to Washignton, DC, & placed in a crypt at the Smithsonian Castle. MONUMENT |
1907 - "History of the Pestalozzian Movement in the United States: With Nine Portraits & a Bibliography" by Will Seymour Monroe, 244 pages. DOWNLOADABLE E-BOOK
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| 1910s
| 1913 - Murphy Auditorium. "Built as a library & lecture hall. Named for Dr. William Murphy, who willed his fortune to the Workingman's Institute. Hosts the spelling bee, ballet, lectures & summer productions of the New Harmony Theatre. The auditorium has a capacity for 427." |
1914 - "Historic New Harmony: Official Guide" by Nora C. Fretageot &
W. V. Mangrum, Centennial Edition. BOOK
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1914 June 13 - Historical Pageant, closing the Centennial Celebration of the Founding of New Harmony, Indiana, presented by the School Children of the Town Assisted by Their Friends at Early Candle-light. "Stars" of the pageant are George Rapp, Robert Owen, William Maclure, and Frances Wright. FULL TEXT ON-LINE (Click here for alternative text.) |
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| 1911 Mar 8 - Robert Dale Owen Memorial (for women's suffrage) at south entrance of Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis. MONUMENT |
1911 - William Norman Guthrie is rector of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie - oldest site of continuous worship in New York City (remains rector until 1937)
1911 - "Emile Augier [1820-1889]" by William Norman Guthrie. BOOK
1912 - "Leaves of the Greater Bible" by William Norman Guthrie. BOOK
| 1913 - 1913 - Bust of Colonel Richard Owen is dedicated in the Indiana Statehouse by a group of Confederate Army veterans for his "courtesy & kindness" toward POW's. MONUMENT |
1919 - "The Religion of Old Glory" by William Norman Guthrie. BOOK
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1910 - "Adventures in Socialism: New Lanark Establishment & Orbiston Community" by Alex Cullen. FULL TEXT ON-LINE>
 | 1917 July 4 - Picpus Cemetery, Paris, France. A US. battalion marches to Lafayette's tomb, & Col Charles E. Stanton pronounces "Lafayette, nous voilà / Lafayette, we are here" (popularly but erroneously attributed to General John J. Pershing). /// Photo courtesy of TripAdvisor. MONUMENT |
| 1920s
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1923 March - "The Family History of Robert Owen" by Arthur H. Estabrook, Indiana Magazine of History. Author is with Eugenics Record Office, Carnegie Instirution of Washington. FULL TEXT ON-LINE
1925 - Mary Emily Fauntleroy sells the "Old Fauntleroy House" to the Indiana Federation of Clubs as a memorial to the first women's club (1859). MONUMENT
| 1920 Aug 18 - Tennessee vote ratifies suffrage for women (19th amendment)
1922 latter part - William Norman Guthrie states that dancers would be trained to interpret religion
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| 1920 - "The Life of Robert Owen" by Himself, with an introduction by M. Beer, London. BOOK |
| 1930s
1931 - Harmony Way Toll Bridge over Wabash River. Links New Harmony to Illinois. "An outstanding example of a Parker-through-truss bridge."
1937 - First New Harmony Memorial Commission
1939 - Indiana Federation of Clubs sells the "Old
Fauntleroy House" to the State of Indiana. MONUMENT
1939 June - "The Fauntleroy Family" by Mary Emily Fauntleroy, Indiana Magaaine of History, pp. 210-217. FULL TEXT ON-LINE
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| 1940s
| 1941 - New Harmony is described as "dilapidated" during honeymoon of geologist Kenneth Dale Owen [1903 2002] & Humble Oil heiress Jane Blaffer Owen [1915-2010]
1946 - "Backwoods Utopias: The Sectarian Origins & the Owenite Phase of Communitarian Socialism in America: 1663-1829" by Arthur Eugene Bestor, Jr. [1908-1994], University of Pennsylvania Press. A study of New Harmony. Introduction by Donald E. Pitzer. BOOK
| 1944 Dec 9 - Death of William Norman Guthrie in Washington, DC - buried in Saint Paul's Cemetery,
Alexandria, VA
1949 - "Robert Owen: Social Idealist" by Rowland Hill Harvey, Univ of California Press. FULL TEXT ON-LINE
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1940 July 9 - Marquis Pierre de Chambrun is the only senator (of 226) to vote against amending the constitutional laws, thus allowing the authoritarian regime (Vichy France) under Philippe Pétain.
| 1947 - Replacement monument, Point-de-Grave, Le Verdon. Inscription: "Ici s'élevait le monument érigé à la gloire des Américains - Aux soldats du général Pershing défenseurs du même idéal de droit et de liberté qui conduisit en Amérique La Fayette et ses volontaires partis de ce rivage en 1777 - Le monument symbolisait la fraternité d'armes et l'amitié franco-américaine - Il fut détruit le 30 mai 1942 par les troupes d'occupation allemandes - Il sera réédifié par le peuple français - They have destroyed it, we shall restore it." MONUMENT |
| 1950s
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| 1959 July 27 - Death of Anna Norton Stuart Guthrie in Stamford, CT - buried in Saint Paul's Cemetery,
Alexandria, VA
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| 1956 - Lafayette heir René de Chambrun & his wife Josée Laval [1911-1992] discover 25,000 documents untouched since Lafayette's death in 1834, in 16 rooms on the 3rd floor of LaGrange, the vast 15th-century mansion they had just inherited. They create a private museum. MUSEUM |
| 1956 - Robert Owen Statue & Plaque, off Shortbridge & Gas Streets, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales. By Gilbert Bayes. Copy of this statue erected in 1994 in Manchester, England. MONUMENT |
| 1960s
| 1960 - Roofless Church by Philip Johnson [1906-2005]. Statue under dome sculpted by Jacques Lipchitz [1891-1973] is inscribed in French. Translation: "Jacob Lipchitz, Jew, faithful to the faith of his ancestors, has made this virgin for the goodwill of all mankind that the spirit might prevail." MONUMENT |
1963 June 2 - Paul Tillich dedicates Paul Tillich Park. MONUMENT
| 1965 Oct 22 - Death of Paul Tillich. His ashes are interred in Paul Tillich Park. MONUMENT |
1965 - National Survey of Historic Sites & Buildings
| 1967 - Bust of Paul Tillich, Tillich Park, New Harmony. By James Rosati [1911-1988]. MONUMENT |
| 1962 - "The Life and Ideas of Robert Owen" by A.L. Morton, New York. BOOK
| 1968 - Closure of the New Lanark mill
1969 - "Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain & America: The Quest for the New Moral World"
by John F. C. Harrison, Routledge Revivals, London, 402 pages. "...the first [book] to use both British & American source material... directs new light on Owenism" SUMMARY ON-LINE
| 1970s
| 1973 - Second New Harmony Memorial Commission
1975 - "A Docmentary History of the Indiana Decade of the Harmony Society 1814-1824" by Karl J. R. Arndt, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis. BOOK
1977 - National Park Service nominates 19 Harmonist/Owenite properties
1977 - "Robert Owen as Educator" by Kren Caplan Altfest, Twayne Publishers, Boston, pp. 191. BOOK
| 1971 - "Robert Owen and his Social Philosophy" by William Lucas Sargant, New York. BOOK
1971 - "Robert Owen, Prophet of the Poor: Essays in Honour of the 200th Anniversary of His Birth,"
Bucknell Univ Press, 318 pages. "Why has Robert Owen continued to occupy the attention of historians in the 20th century? What was his relationship with the great social & political movements of his age? To what extent was the Owenite "message" of importance outside Great Britain?" BOOK
| 1976 - Statue of Lafayette, LaGrange, Georgia. Bronze copy of a famous statue by Ernest-Eugène Hiolle [1834-1886]. Dedicated by Lafayette's heir, Comte René de Chambrum [1906-2002]. Lafayette visited Georgia in 1825, & LaGrange was incorporated in 1828. MONUMENT |
| 1974 - New Lanark Trust is formed to prevent destruction of the village.
| 1980s
1980 Sept - "New Harmony, Indiana: Robert Owen's Seedbed for Utopia" by Donald F. Carmony & Josephine M. Elliott, Indiana Magazine of History, pp. 161-261. FULL TEXT ON-LINE
1985 - University of Southern Indiana partners with Historic New Harmony
1987 - Collection #M0219 (New Harmony), Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis
1989 - Chapel of the Little Portion
1989 Dec - "The Original Boatload of Knowledge Down the Ohio River..." by Prof Donald E. Pitzer. FULL TEXT ON-LINE
| 1980 - "Frances (Fanny) Wright" by Tyna Landgrebe, Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame. FULL TEXT ON-LINE
1983 Apr - "Restless Angels: The Friendship of Six Victorian Women" by Helen Heineman. BOOK
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| 1987 - Ceremony at Point-de-Grave, Le Verdon, celebrating simultaneous 210th anniversary of LaFayette's departure and 70th anniversary of arrival of American Expeditionary Force (AEF). Participation of US & French armed forces & of Comte René de Chambrum. MONUMENT |
| 1990s
1990 - "Quest for Harmony," sculpture in front of the Atheneum, by Tim Fitzgerald. A gift of Paul Arnold. MONUMENT
| 1992 Sep - Interpretive Center, Falls of the Ohio State Park, Clarksville, Indiana. Lafayette's steamboat sank here in May 1825, but the Boatload of Knowledge slipped past in January 1826. MUSEUM |
1998 - "William Maclure's Boatload of Knowledge..." by Prof Donald E. Pitzer. FULL TEXT ON-LINE
1998 June - "The Spirit Of Improvement: The America of William Maclure & Robert Owen" by Daniel Feller. FULL TEXT ON-LINE
1999 - "Charles-Alexandre Lesueur: Premier Naturalist and Artist" by Josephine Mirabella Elliott & Jane Thompson Johansen, Red Geranium Bookstore, 531 Church Street, New Harmony, IN. BOOK
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| 1992 - "Thomas Say: New World Naturalist" by Patricia Tyson Stroud, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, pp. 340. BOOK |
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| 1991 June 1 - "A New View of Society & Other Writings
by Robert Owen," edited by Gregory Claeys, Penguin Classics, 432 pages. "...his intense concern for equality, justice, education & labor reform... His radical proposal for a full-scale reorganization of British society through the concept of cooperative model communities." BOOK |
| 2000s
| 2003 - "For the Dissemination of Useful Knowledge the Workingmen's Institute, New Harmony, Indiana" by Sara Lowe & Sean Stone. ARTICLE W/TEXT ON-LINE
2008 Apr 17 - "Town of New Harmony Comprehensive Plan" FULL TEXT ON-LINE
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| 2003 - "The Fanny, A Fiction" by Edmund White, ecco (HarperCollins), pp. 366. "Wright met Frances Trollope on a transatlantic voyage, and it is their friendship, then rivalry, that drives this novel forward."
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2004 Apr - "Searching for Freedom throguh Utopia: Revisiting Frances Wright's Nashoba" thesis by Renee M. Stowitzk, Vanderbilt University, Nashville. THESIS
2007 - "A Welcome Attack on American Values : How the
Doctrines of Robert Owen Attracted American
Society" by
Elizabeth Johnson, Illinois Wesleyan Univ. FULL TEXT ON-LINE
2009 - "William Maclure of New Harmony" by Leonard Warren. BOOK
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| 2000 - Maquette du projet de construction de New Harmony, Saline Royale d’Arc et Senans & son exposition "à la recherche de la cité idéale." Pour des raisons diverses, financières mais aussi conjoncturelles, Owen abandonna la partie architecturale de son projet et se contenta de racheter un village déjà construit par une communauté religieuse (les "Rappistes"). MODEL |
2001 - UNESCO designates New Lanark a World Heritage Site (1 of 5 in Scotland)
2006 Summer - "Orbiston: The First British Owenite Community 1825-28" by Ian Donnachie,
The Open University, UK. FULL TEXT ON-LINE
| 2010s
2010 June 21 - Death of philanthropist Jane Blaffer Owen [1915-2010]. She married Kenneth Dale Owen [1903 2002], honeymooned in then dilapidated New Harmony in 1941 & later created the Robert Lee Blaffer Foundation to finance many New Harmony projects, including the Roofless Church & restoration of the Rapp granary. She is survived by two daughters - Jane Dale Owen & Anne Dale Owen.
| 2012 - "New Harmony Then and Now" by Prof Donald E. Pitzer with photos by Darryl D. Jones,
Indiana University Press, 202 pages. Pitzer's earlier books: America's Communal Utopias, New Harmony's First Utopians, and New Harmony, Indiana: Robert Owen's Seedbed for Utopia. PICTURE BOOK |
2014 - New Harmony Bicentennial
| 2015 Mar 16 - "New Harmony, Indiana: Like a River, Not a Lake: A Memoir" by Jane Blaffer Owen,
Indiana University Press, 400 pages. BOOK |
2015 May 14 - "It All Started Here: Arthur Bestor, Jr., & Josephine Elliot" by Donald E. Pitzer, lecture at Workingmen's Instiutute, New Harmony. LECTURE
| 2013 May 15 - "The Red Harlot of Liberty: The Rise & Fall of Frances Wright" by Kimberly Nichols, Newtopia Magazine. FULL TEXT ON-LINE
2014 Oct 3-Nov 30 - "Tennessee’s Intentional Communities: Examining The Farm, Nashoba, Rugby & Ruskin," Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN. Exhibiton about four social living experiments that took place in the state over the past 180 years. Curated by Graham Perry. "Nashoba was an anti-slavery community whose heyday was between 1825 & 1828 in the present day Memphis suburb of Germantown on the Wolf River. Nashoba was founded by a Scottish woman, Frances Wright. At its largest, Nashoba had only 20 members. Highlights of the exhibit include a 'New Harmony' costume & a lock of Wright’s hair." EXHIBITION
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| Date? - Annie McLeod Experience Ride, New Lanark, Scotland. "Sitting in a monorail chair, visitors are guided through a step back in time, experiencing the life of a child [in 1820] during the heyday of the cotton industry. The sights & sounds of the period emerge from the gloom by means of holograms; life size figures; period settings & piped commentaries. In addition there is an exhibition of cotton spinning & a nature walk to the Falls of Clyde plus the New Lanark Hotel." ATTRACTION |
| 2008? - Rooftop Garden & Viewing Platform, Mill #2, New Lanark, Scotland. "Created on the 9,000 square feet of roof on one of our mill buildings, our Roof Garden is the largest of its kind in Scotland." MONUMENT |
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