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| Repository: | Appalachian State University W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection |
| Creator: | |
| Title: | Collection 346. Celo Community Collection of Papers, 1950 - 1966, n.d. |
| Language of Material: | Material in English |
| Location: | For current information on the location of these materials, please consult Appalachian State University. |
| Abstract: | The Celo Community Collection of Papers consist of 4 items about the intentional community located in the Black Mountains of Yancey County, North Carolina. |
| These documents detail the origins of the Celo Community from its residents' perspective during the 1950s and the 1960s. | |
| Extent: | 0.0001 linear feet, 1 archival folder |
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[Identification of item], Collection 346. Celo Community Collection of Papers, W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, NC, USA.
This collection has been in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection since before 1990. Provenance is unknown. The accession number is 00-23. It was opened to the public in September 2006.
Processed by Kathryn Staley, September 2006
Encoded by Kathryn Staley, September 2006
In 1937, Arthur E. Morgan, William Regnery, and Clarence Pickett founded the Celo Community as an utopian community experiment in Yancey County, North Caroilna. It was chartered as a non-profit land-holding corporation which had a summer camps, schools, and a health center. Many of its early members were members of the Society of Friends (Quakers).
| Celo Community |
| Collective settlements -- North Carolina -- History |
| Utopias -- United States -- History -- 20th century |
Hicks, George L. Experimental Americans: Celo and Utopian Community in the Twentieth Century, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
