Brook Farm Phalanx (West Roxbury, Boston, Mass.)

found: Its Constitution of the Brook Farm Phalanx, adopted May 1, 1845, 1845: t.p. (incorporated by the Legislature of Mass., Mar. 1845) p. 5 (the name of this association shall be the Brook Farm Phalanx)

found: Codman, J.T. Brook Farm, historic and personal memories, 1894: p. 12 (in the association's 1st constitution, 1842: The name and style of the association shall be "(The Brook Farm) Institute of Agriculture and Education") p. 43 (2nd constitution, 1844, mentioned but name not cited)

found: NUC pre-1956 (Brook Farm Phalanx, West Roxbury, Mass.; hdg. for previous name: Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education, West Roxbury, Mass.; entries under the latter hdg. are eds. of the 1844 constitution, with titles giving name as in hdg.)

found: Delano, S.F. The Harbinger and New England Transcendentalism, c1983: p. 15 (the Brook Farm community founded in 1841 in West Roxbury, Mass.; its demise was in autumn of 1847) p. 16 (on 18 Jan. 1844 a new constitution was drawn up converting "The Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and Education" to "The Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education"; in Mar. 1845 a 3rd constitution was drafted, which changed the name of the community to the "Brook Farm Phalanx")

found: NUCMC data from Fruitlands Museums for Brook Farm collection, 1834-1900 (Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and Education founded in 1841; converted to a phalanx in 1844; experiment closed 1847)

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