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Events on Thursday 1 April 1841 1
1841Brook Farm utopian community foundedTranscendentalist experiment in communal living begins in MassachusettsGeorge Ripley and a group of Transcendentalists founded the Brook Farm community in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, in April 1841. The experiment aimed to combine intellectual culture with manual labor on a cooperative farm, attracting figures associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson's circle. The community dissolved in 1847 after financial troubles and a fire.