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Home Colony was an anarchist colony on Puget Sound in Washington State from 1898 to 1909. Its founders were members of a former Bellamyite colony who bought 26 acres and formally organized as the Mutual Home Association in January 1898. Colonists purchased one or two acres and the proceeds purchased new land for the colony. Its colonists lived as individuals rather than cooperatively and tolerated a wide degree of social practices, including free love, free speech. They organized few cooperative institutions aside from a cooperative store (1902), some mutual construction projects, and a weekly anarchist paper, Discontent: Mother of Progress. When the newspaper was fined for obscenity, they replaced it with The Demonstrator. The original 40 colonists grew to 91 by 1900 and 155 by 1906. The colony's numerous visiting speakers included Emma Goldman. Following 1909 changes to the association's articles of incorporation allowed land to transfer from their mutual trust to private ownership, Home declined as a cooperative community but remained a home for anarchists.{{sfn|Fogarty|1980}}

Jay Fox resided at Home, where he published the The Agitator from 1910 to 1912.

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  • {{Cite book |last1=Fogarty |first1=Robert S. |chapter=Home Colony, or Mutual Home Association |pp=144–145 |title=Dictionary of American Communal and Utopian History. |date=1980 |language=English |isbn=978-0-313-21347-2 |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport, Connecticut |oclc=251590189 |df=mdy-all }}
  • {{Cite journal |last1=Lewarne |first1=Charles P. |title=The Anarchist Colony at Home, Washington, 1901-1902 |journal=Arizona and the West |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=155–168 |date=1972 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40168070 |issn=0004-1408 |jstor=40168070 |df=mdy-all }}
  • {{Cite book |last1=LeWarne |first1=Charles Pierce |title=Utopias on Puget Sound, 1885–1915 |date=1975 |language=English |isbn=978-0-295-95343-4 |publisher=University of Washington Press |location=Seattle |oclc=995069 |df=mdy-all }}
  • {{Cite book |last1=Oved |first1=Iaácov |chapter=Sunrise and Anarchist Communities |title=Two Hundred Years of American Communes |pages=311–331 |date=1988 |isbn=0-88738-113-8 |publisher=Transaction Books |location=New Brunswick, New Jersey |df=mdy-all }}
  • {{Cite book |last1=Wadland |first1=Justin |title=Trying Home: The Rise and Fall of an Anarchist Utopia on Puget Sound |date=2014 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/book/35806 |language=English |isbn=978-0-87071-743-7 |via=Project MUSE |publisher=Oregon State University Press |df=mdy-all }}
  • {{Cite web |last1=McMichael |first1=Barbara Lloyd |title=‘Trying Home’: an anarchist utopia on Puget Sound |work=The Seattle Times |date=2014-08-24 |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/lsquotrying-homersquo-an-anarchist-utopia-on-puget-sound/ |language=en-US |access-date=2021-05-24 |df=mdy-all }}

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  • [http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv99569 Photograph archive] at the University of Washington Libraries
  • [https://content.libraries.wsu.edu/digital/collection/radnews/search/searchterm/Discontent!Agitator/field/titla!titla/mode/all!all/conn/or!and/order/title/ad/asc/page/1 Digitized newspaper archives] at Washington State University

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