Single Tax Colony
Single Tax Colonies (or Single Tax Enclaves[1]) were utopian communities founded with the hopes of implementing the ideas of Henry George and his highly popular book, Progress and Poverty.
Background
From the years of 1895 to 1927, a series of ten single tax colonies were formed in the United States.[2] 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.[3] A group of single taxers even founded the colony of Sant Jordi in the European Country of Andorra.[4][5]
The most well known of those colonies are Fairhope, Alabama, and Arden, New Jersey; both of which are still thriving communities today.
Legacy
Several of the former single tax communities, such as Rose Valley[6] and Arden,[7] are listed as National Historic Landmarks.
In his book Schools of To-morrow, John Dewey argues that the educational experiment at Fairhope presents a role model for progressive education.[8][9]
References
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=wpFJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA66
- ↑ Utopia, New Jersey: Travels in the Nearest Eden
- ↑ Land and Freedom, Volumes 20-21
- ↑ 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
- ↑ The Single Tax Review, Volume 16
- ↑ Rose Valley Historic District
- ↑ Village of Arden, Delaware
- ↑ The Autobiography of Citizenship: Assimilation and Resistance in U.S. Education
- ↑ Schools Of To-morrow