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Wisconsin Phalanx

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Kenosha

In Kenosha
…of the founding of the Wisconsin Phalanx, which in 1844 established a communal living experiment based on the principles of the French social theorist Charles Fourier in what is now the area of Ripon. The city also won authority from the legislature to establish a tax to support a local…
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Ripon

In Ripon
In 1844 the Wisconsin Phalanx, a group of followers of the 19th-century French socialist philosopher Charles Fourier, organized a communal settlement there known as Ceresco (for Ceres, Roman goddess of agriculture). It was disbanded in 1851 and absorbed in 1853 by the adjacent settlement of Ripon (founded 1849).…
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