THE BUREAU COUNTY PHALANX.
In the first number of the Phalanx, October 5, 1843, it is mentioned that a small Association had been commenced in Bureau County, Illinois. Macdonald repeats the mention, and adds, "No further particulars."
THE WASHTENAW PHALANX
was projected at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and a monthly paper called the Future, was started in connection with it; but it appears to have failed before it got fairly into operation; as the Phalanx barely refers to it once, and Macdonald dismisses it as a mere abortive excitement.
GARDEN GROVE COMMUNITY, IOWA,
was projected by D. Roberts, W. Davis, and others. The plan was to settle a colony of the "right sort" on contiguous lots, each family with its separate farm and dwelling, but all having a common pleasure-ground, dancing-hall, lecture-room and seminary. What came of it is not known.
THE IOWA PIONEER PHALANX
is mentioned twice in the Phalanx, as a Fourierist colony about to emigrate from Jefferson County, New York, to Iowa. It issued a paper; but whether it ever emigrated or what became of it, does not appear.
If there were any more of these feeble experiments—as there may have been many—they escaped the sharp eyes of Macdonald and the Harbinger, and left no memorials.