Fountaingrove Round Barn, originally uploaded by Richard J M
Fountaingrove was established in 1875 by Thomas Lake Harris, founder of the Brotherhood of the New Life and of three colonies in New York between 1861 and 1867. Fountaingrove, described by its founder as a Theo-Socialist community, was situated in Northern California on 700 acres two miles north of Santa Rosa, “the Eden of the West.”
(An excerpt from AMERICA AND THE UTOPIAN DREAM)
Photographs of Thomas Lake Harris and Kanae Nagasawa (Luther Burbank, Kanaye Nagasawa and Edwin Markham outside at Fountaingrove, Santa Rosa, Calif., 1915 / courtesy, the Sonoma County Library)
