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The Ruskin Colony (or Ruskin Commonwealth Association) was a utopian socialist colony in the southern US at the end of the 19th century.[1]
It was located near Tennessee City in Dickson County, Tennessee from 1894 to 1896. The colony moved to a more permanent second settlement on an old farm five miles north from 1896 to 1899, and saw another brief incarnation near Waycross, in southern Georgia, from 1899 until it finally dissolved in 1901. Its regional location within the Southern United States set it apart from many other similar utopian projects of the era.
At its high point, the population was around 250. The colony was named after John Ruskin, the English socialist writer. A cave on the colony's second property in Dickson County still carries his name. The site of the colony's second settlement in Dickson County is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- ^ Braam, J. W. (1903). "The Ruskin Co-Operative Colony". American Journal of Sociology. 8 (5): 667–680. ISSN 0002-9602.