History and government of Indiana .. . New Pur-chase, thirty-seven coun-ties have since been it the Indians received$13,000 in a lump sum witha promise of $S,ooo annuallythereafter. Soon afterwardsthese Indian tribes begantheir long march to thenewer frontier beyond the Father of Waters. 1 New Harmony: TheRappites and the of the early noted set-tlements in Indiana was atNew Harmony, on the banksof the lower Wabash. In1814, the Germans wholived in the HarmonieCommunity in Pennsyl-vania, sold their homesand bought a large tract of 17,000 acres in Posey county. They cleared the
History and government of Indiana .. . New Pur-chase, thirty-seven coun-ties have since been it the Indians received$13,000 in a lump sum witha promise of $S,ooo annuallythereafter. Soon afterwardsthese Indian tribes begantheir long march to thenewer frontier beyond the Father of Waters. 1 New Harmony: TheRappites and the of the early noted set-tlements in Indiana was atNew Harmony, on the banksof the lower Wabash. In1814, the Germans wholived in the HarmonieCommunity in Pennsyl-vania, sold their homesand bought a large tract of 17,000 acres in Posey county. They cleared the landand built up mills and factories and vineyards and their leader, Frederick Rappe, they were called Rap-pites. They sold their New Harmony settlement, grown to30,000 acres, to Robert Owen in 1825 for $150,000. Owen ^ Baynard R. Hall, the first professor in the State University, wrote a bookentitled The New Purchase, or Seven and a Half Years in the Far West, whichtells much of interest about early conditions in Indiana in 1818, Showing thePurchase New 498 ELEMENTARY HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT was a rich manufacturer and philanthropist of Scotland and isknown as the father of modern socialism. He wished torelieve the hard condition of the factory laborers. He wouldestablish a community in the far west of America where landwas cheap, in which the laborers would receive the products oftheir toil, where there would be no rich and no poor, where allthe goods and money would come into a common store and whereall the toilers would share alike in having their needs was an attempt at communism. It did not last long on thecommunistic basis, but New Harmony came to be a centre ofinfluence in the state. Libraries and schools were established,industry was cultivated, the natural sciences advanced, and astrong intellectual community grew up. Three noted sons ofRobert Owen became leaders in the State: David Dale Owen,a State Geologist; Col. Richard Owen, scien
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