NARRATOR: Made possible by the Indiana Historical Society and law firm of Krieg DeVault. I’m Jane Pauley with this Indiana Bicentennial Minute. Utopia in Indiana? A lot of us Hoosiers have known it for years. PAULEY: Both groups achieved technology and science unrivaled in the country and the New Harmony School of Industry was the forerunner of today’s vocational college. In 1825, they sold New Harmony to a secular Scotsman named Robert Owen, who invited anyone to come and help create a new moral order. One stroll through town, and it’s not hard to see why. PAULEY: A remarkable communal society with a famous labyrinth and a bank so prosperous that it lend the state money, all while society members awaited the second coming in celibacy. New Harmony is the ideal location for weddings, conferences, festivals, concerts, retreats and theatrical performances. Men and women in 18th-century-style plain dress is shown. The name originally came from Harmony, Pennsylvania where the Mormon Prophet, Joseph Smith. The first was founded in 1814 by the Harmony Society and their leader, George Rapp. Understand edit History edit New Harmony was the site of two attempted utopian communities during the early 19th century. George Rap brought his German-American Harmony Society in 1814 and built, “New Harmony.” The New Harmony name came from Harmony and Fort Harmony. New Harmony is a town in Southwestern Indiana. Established in southwestern Indiana, it was one of the first intense efforts to create a community based on cooperative, proto- socialist ideals, but it failed after two years, mainly because of the flawed principles it was founded on. PAULEY: A lot of people have considered Indiana a utopia. New Harmony was a utopian community founded by the British industrialist and social reformer Robert Owen in 1825.
NARRATOR: This Indiana Bicentennial minute is made possible by the Indiana Historical Society and law firm of Krieg DeVault.ĭrawn images of the bird’s eye view of New Harmony in Indiana is shown.
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