History of the Hopedale Community

The insider's history of America's most principled utopia: Hopedale 'from its inception to its virtual submergence in the Hopedale parish,' written by its founder in old age and edited posthumously by William S. Heywood. Ballou records the community's founding ideals, its years of modest success, and — with painful candor — its collapse in 1856 when the Draper brothers withdrew their capital. The essential primary source for the experiment, told by the man whose life's hope it was.

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