Land Acquisition in Butler County
- When
- December 1804
- Where
- Butler County, Pennsylvania
Rapp and associates contracted in December 1804 to purchase 4,500 acres in Butler County, Pennsylvania; holdings reached about 9,000 acres by 1814.
The December 1804 contract covered 4,500 acres, with additional land acquired afterward so that holdings totaled approximately 9,000 acres by the time the property was advertised for sale in 1814. The settlers built the town of Harmony, which by 1805 included nearly 50 log houses, a large barn, a gristmill, and over 150 acres of cleared land for crops. This acquisition provided the physical foundation for the formal establishment of the society in 1805.
Sources
- Harmony Society Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-28
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