SYLVANIA COLONY
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unimoggers
N 41° 25.075 W 074° 59.697
18T E 500422 N 4585151
So what are you going to believe? The link below indicates that the markers for Sylvania Colony are correct. Hmmm.
Waymark Code: WMZXK
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 11/27/2006
Views: 36
Marker Text:
The site of Horace Greeley's Utopian colony modeled on Brook Farm and the ideas of Fourier, French Socialist, was located here. Based on common property holding and equal labor, it failed in 1845 after July frosts had killed all crops.
Marker Name: Sylvania Colony
County: Pike
Date Dedicated: 06/01/1948
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: Pa. 434 at Pa. 590, Greeley
Category: Government & Politics, Cities & Towns, Environment, Government & Politics 19th Century
Website: [Web Link]
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