Skaneateles Community
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One of several utopian social experiments in Upstate New York prior to the Civil War, the Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform in 1843 established a community located at "Community Place," a 350-acre farm near Mottville, in the Town of Skaneateles, NY. John A. Collins (1810-1900), a noted abolitionst, became the community leader. During its three-year life, the community had about a hundred members who shared living quarters as well as work on farm, sawmill, and print shop. Although economically viable, internal differences and Collins' waning leadership resulted in dissolution of the Skaneateles Community in 1846.
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