Topic @ The School: From Equality Colony to Freeland: A Cooperative Journey

Skagit County Historical Museum Exhibit:

Dr. Jesse Kennedy

From Equality Colony to Freeland: a cooperative journey

The socialist founders of Equality Colony saw the utopian community as planting the seeds of reformation in the political state of Washington. As it evolved a group of idealists left the colony to follow their beliefs and founded Freeland, a Rochdale town described by the Whidbey Islander as “a settlement of socialists cooperating on semi-capitalistic principles.” Learn what that meant to both communities.