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ICARIA

Icaria was a communistic settlement founded in 1856, in Iowa, by the followers of the Frenchman, Etienne Cabet. Etienne Cabet in 1848, had persuaded a number of persons to settle with him in the Red River country of Texas. This colony failed because of Etienne Cabet's extravagant ideas. In 1850 the colony moved to Nauvoo in Illinois, a deserted village of the Mormons. Thence they moved again in 1856 (Etienne Cabet dying that same year at New Orleans), to their last settlement near Corning, Iowa, calling it the Icaria Commune, in reminiscence of Cabet's book, Icarie. Most of the people, less than 100 in all at the end of the 19th century, were French, though there were a few Germans.
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