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==Background==
==Background==
From the years of 1895 to 1927, a series of ten single tax colonies were formed in the United States.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ibdHVqtWUQ4C&pg=PA29 Utopia, New Jersey: Travels in the Nearest Eden]</ref> Those included the Tahanto colony, at Harvard, the Rose Valley colony, near Philadephia, Free Acres, in New Jersey, the Halidon colony, in Cumberland Mills, Maine, and colonies in Arden, Delaware and Fairhope, Alabama.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=daxLAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA93 Land and Freedom, Volumes 20-21]</ref> A group of single taxers even founded the colony of Sant Jordi in the European Country of Andorra.<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E01E1DE1331E733A05755C1A9629C946796D6CF American Single Taxers Invade Tiny Andorra; Fiske Warren Carries Their Gospel to the Republic Hidden for Twelve Centuries in the Pyrenees Between France and Spain], [[New York Times]]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YvQtAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA184 The Single Tax Review, Volume 16]</ref>
From the years of 1895 to 1927, a series of ten single tax colonies were formed in the United States.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ibdHVqtWUQ4C&pg=PA29 Utopia, New Jersey: Travels in the Nearest Eden]</ref> Those included the Tahanto colony, at Harvard, the Rose Valley colony, near Philadelphia, Free Acres, in New Jersey, the Halidon colony, in Cumberland Mills, Maine, and colonies in Arden, Delaware and Fairhope, Alabama.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=daxLAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA93 Land and Freedom, Volumes 20-21]</ref> A group of single taxers even founded the colony of Sant Jordi in the European Country of Andorra.<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E01E1DE1331E733A05755C1A9629C946796D6CF American Single Taxers Invade Tiny Andorra; Fiske Warren Carries Their Gospel to the Republic Hidden for Twelve Centuries in the Pyrenees Between France and Spain], [[New York Times]]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YvQtAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA184 The Single Tax Review, Volume 16]</ref>
The most well known of those colonies are Fairhope, Alabama, and Arden, New Jersey; both of which are still thriving communities today.
The most well known of those colonies are Fairhope, Alabama, and Arden, New Jersey; both of which are still thriving communities today.
In his book ''Schools of To-morrow'', [[John Dewey]] argues that the educational experiment at Fairhope presents a role model for progressive education.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8E5IBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT159 The Autobiography of Citizenship: Assimilation and Resistance in U.S. Education]</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/schoolsoftomorro005826mbp Schools Of To-morrow]</ref>
In his book ''Schools of To-morrow'', [[John Dewey]] argues that the educational experiment at Fairhope presents a role model for progressive education.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8E5IBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT159 The Autobiography of Citizenship: Assimilation and Resistance in U.S. Education]</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/schoolsoftomorro005826mbp Schools Of To-morrow]</ref>
While living in Arden in 1903,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8YXJ6N6nXSkC&pg=PA128 Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair]</ref> Lizzie Magie invented a game she called [[The Landlord's Game]], which became the basis for one of the best selling games in world history, [[Monopoly (board game)|Monopoly]]. Other notable former residents of Arden include [[Upton Sinclair]] and [[Mother Bloor]], a founder of the [[Communist Party USA]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=tPNUEgdtJ1sC&pg=PA116 Elizabeth Wade White Papers Catalog and Finding Aid, Vol 1]</ref>
==References==
==References==
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