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5 unusual facts about New Harmony


Dale, Indiana

Founded in 1843 and initially called Elizabeth, it was renamed after Robert Dale Owen of New Harmony, the town's congressman at the time.

Hoosier Salon

The Salon has expanded to include three permanent gallery spaces in Indiana, located in Indianapolis, New Harmony and Wabash.

New Lanark

In 1825, control of New Lanark passed to the Walker family when Owen left Britain to start settlement of New Harmony in the US.

Paul Tillich

In 1966 his ashes were interred in the Paul Tillich Park in New Harmony, Indiana.

The Promise of Eden

The Promise of Eden tells the story of a young boy, Gregory Coleman, who lives in the small town of New Harmony, Indiana.


Anarchism in Mexico

In 1824, the utopian socialist Robert Owen unsuccessfully tried to acquire a district of fifty leagues to develop a colony in the Mexican provinces of Coahuila and Texas along the same principles set forth in New Harmony.

Don Gummer

Gummer's commissioned works have included Primary Compass (2000), a site-specific outdoor permanent sculpture at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio and a sculpture/fountain in Historic New Harmony, New Harmony, Indiana.

Harmony, Pennsylvania

They formally established the Harmony Society in 1805 and lived in Pennsylvania for about 10 years before selling the Harmony property in 1814 to Abraham Ziegler, a Mennonite, and moving west to Indiana Territory, where they built the town of Harmony on the Wabash River (now New Harmony, Indiana).

Itawamba County School District

Juin Baize is a gender variant teenager, who, at the time, was a sixteen-year-old who along with his mother and two sisters moved to Fulton, Mississippi from New Harmony, Indiana to live with Baize's grandmother.


see also

Karl Bodmer

The Prince devotes a whole chapter of his book to New Harmony, its environs, and to the work and personalities of two leading American naturalists who lived there, Thomas Say and Charles-Alexandre Lesueur.

Robert Dale Owen

He returned 1833 to New Harmony, Indiana, and served in the Indiana House of Representatives twice (1835–1838; 1851–1853).