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Why did Robert Owen purchase land in Indiana for New Harmony?
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Robert Owen, detail of a watercolour by Auguste Hervieu, 1829; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Robert Owen purchased 30,000 acres of land in Indiana in 1825 to implement his vision for the creation of self-contained, socialist communities. By establishing this settlement, which he renamed New Harmony, Owen sought to put his social reform theories into practice. He acquired the site from a religious group known as the Rappites, who were relocating their own communal experiment to Pennsylvania.123