Short-lived utopian experiment in communal living (1841–47) in West Roxbury, Mass.
(near Boston), founded by Charles A. Dana , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Margaret Fuller , Horace Greeley , James Russell Lowell , John Greenleaf Whittier , and Ralph Waldo Emerson (though not all of them were actual members). It was also noted for the modern educational theory of its excellent school. See also {{link=Oneida Community">Oneida Community .