New Harmony: Echoes of Utopia

The town of New Harmony is located on the banks of the Wabash River, near the Illinois border in Indiana’s southwestern corner. The town’s origins date back to the turn of the nineteenth century, when the first utopian society was founded in 1814. A second society followed in 1825. This exhibit focuses on how the Harmonists and Owenites left their mark on the town’s cultural landscape, as well as the intellectual and political development of Indiana in the nineteenth century.