Photograph
Ceresco, Ripon, Wisconsin
| View of "Long House," one of the buildings in the experimental communal colony of the Fourierites. Caption reads: "The 'Long House,' home of the Fourierites, in the communistic colony established in the 1840s at the edge of what is now Ripon, Wis." |
| Image ID: | 39675 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1910 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
| City: | Ripon |
| County: | Fond du Lac |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Wisconsin place file, circa 1850s-circa 1950s |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | PF Ripon.6b |
| Original Dimensions: | 3 x 1.75 inches |
| On May 17, 1844, a portion of the Wisconsin Phalanx came to the western part of what is now the City of Ripon and started a development named Ceresco. The Phalanx had been organized in Kenosha to put into practical operation Charles Fourier's principles of social philosophy. |
| Outdoor photography |
| Trees |
| Dormitories |
| Cities and towns |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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