Home Colony was an anarchist colony on
Puget Sound
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in
Washington State
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from 1898 to 1909. Its founders were members of a former
Bellamyite colony who bought 26 acres and formally organized as the Mutual Home Association in January 1898. Colonists purchased one or two acres and the proceeds purchased new land for the colony. Its colonists lived as individuals rather than
cooperatively
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and tolerated a wide degree of social practices, including free love, free speech. They organized few cooperative institutions aside from a cooperative store (1902), some mutual construction projects, and a weekly anarchist paper, ''Discontent: Mother of Progress''. When the newspaper was fined for obscenity, they replaced it with ''The Demonstrator''. The original 40 colonists grew to 91 by 1900 and 155 by 1906. The colony's numerous visiting speakers included
Emma Goldman
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. Following 1909 changes to the association's
articles of incorporation
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allowed land to transfer from their mutual trust to private ownership, Home declined as a
cooperative community
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but remained a home for anarchists.
Jay Fox resided at Home, where he published
The Agitator
''The Agitator'' is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. It was written by Edward Dryhurst and based on the 1925 novel ''Peter Pettinger'' by William Riley.
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from 1910 to 1912.
See also
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Home, Washington
Home is a census-designated place in Pierce County, Washington, United States. The 2010 Census placed the population at 1,377. The community lies on the Key Peninsula and borders the waters of Carr Inlet, an extension of Puget Sound. Home is n ...
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External links
Photograph archiveat the
University of Washington Libraries
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Digitized newspaper archivesat
Washington State University
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1898 establishments in Washington (state)
Anarchism in Washington (state)
Anarchist intentional communities
Intentional communities in the United States
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