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Brook Farm was an experiment in communal living. All residents would share the labor in the community.

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George Ripley, the founder of the farm, wanted the inhabitants to experience leisure.

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George Ripley tried to attain his goals through shared labor.

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She co-founded the experiment along with her husband George Ripley. They formed a joint-stock company in 1841.

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The primary source of the community’s income, the school, was overseen by her.

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Initially, these goals were reached, but eventually the residents started to become unsatisfied and left, and a fire in an uninsured building led to Brooks Farm being shut down.

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What effect did it have on American history?

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What effect did it have on American history?

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It is one of the most well-known communal living experiments due to the people associated with it. The land turned into farmland, then training grounds during the Civil War, the an orphanage along with a cemetery.