Brook Farm

Included some 200 acres at West Roxbury, Ma ., where, in 1841, the Transcendentalists formed a settlement with the object of combining cultivation of mind and heart with a reasonable amount of common daily labor. Mem bers received 10 cents an hour for their work, whether as teachers, field or stable hands, joiners, shoemakers, or seamstre es, and all shared alike. The scheme failed financially in 1847. It was first started as a joint-stock company, reorganized as a phalanstery 1844, and incorporated as the Brook Farm Phalanx 1845. Among the members were George Ripley, C. A. Dana, G. W. Curtis, Theodore Parker, W. H. Channing, R. W. Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Alcott, Browns on, and others.