Fellowship Farm Cooperative Association
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The Fellowship Farm Cooperative Association was a Utopian anarchist community in the Stelton section of Piscataway Township, New Jersey
that was started in 1912.
. An advertisement was placed in the New York Call
to attract people to the project. Samuel Goldman (1882-1969) began building the Russian House in the Modern School colony in 1915. Also in 1915 members of the Ferrer movement bought adjacent land and started the Ferrer Colony and Modern School
and they would eventually share a cooperative store.
Piscataway Township, New Jersey
The township consists of the following historic villages and areas: New Market, known as Quibbletown in the 18th Century, Randolphville, Fieldville and North Stelton...
that was started in 1912.
History
The farm was inaugurated on Thanksgiving Day in 1912. 263 acres (1.1 km²) of active farmland was purchased by Ernest H. Liebel from J. C. Letson in Stelton and each member was leased 1 acres (4,046.9 m²) of land. The project was supervised by G. E. Littlefield of MassachusettsMassachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
. An advertisement was placed in the New York Call
New York Call
The New York Call was a socialist daily newspaper published in New York City from 1908 through 1923. The Call was the second of three English-language dailies affiliated with the Socialist Party of America to be established, following the Chicago Daily Socialist while preceding the long running...
to attract people to the project. Samuel Goldman (1882-1969) began building the Russian House in the Modern School colony in 1915. Also in 1915 members of the Ferrer movement bought adjacent land and started the Ferrer Colony and Modern School
Ferrer Colony and Modern School
The Ferrer Colony and the associated Ferrer Modern School was an anarchist intentional community founded in 1911 in New York City and moved to Piscataway Township, New Jersey in 1915. The Ferrer Modern School opened later. It lasted for more than 40 years before finally closing in 1953...
and they would eventually share a cooperative store.