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On May 20, 2019, the National Register of Historic Places in the United States, listed two four story sixteen apartment buildings, Alku 1 and Alku Toinen, (Finnish for Beginning 1 and 2), located at 816 and 826 43rd Street, Kings County Brooklyn New York, as the first two coop buildings in the US, built by Finnish immigrants, on the National Register of Historic Places.
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[5] [6] In the decades that followed, several cooperatives or cooperative societies formed including Lennoxtown Friendly Victualling Society, founded in 1812. [7] By 1830, there were several hundred co-operatives. [8] Some were initially successful, but most cooperatives founded in the early 19th century had failed by 1840. [9]
TheSugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida dates began in the 1950s when 16 farmers met to discuss joining together with other farmers in the Glades Area, west of West Palm Beach, Florida, and southeast of Lake Okeechobee, to form a farming cooperative. In July 1960, 54 farmer-members chartered Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida.
For All The People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America, PM Press, by John Curl, 2009; Humanizing The Economy: Cooperatives in an Age of Capital, New Society Publishers, 2010; The Cooperative Solution, by E. G. Nadeau, 2012. A popular and contemporary introduction to cooperative economics.
At the outset, the Pioneers had a clear set of objects, as set out in "Law the First" of its rules: The objects and plans of the Society are to form arrangements for the pecuniary benefit, and improvement of the social and domestic condition of its members, by raising a sufficient amount of capital in shares of £1 each, to bring into operation the following plans and arrangements:
The 1755 Lisbon earthquake triggered a tsunami that would have struck Central Florida with an estimated 1.5-meter (4 ft 11 in) wave. [37] Creek and Seminole Native Americans, who had established buffer settlements in Florida at the invitation of the Spanish government, also welcomed any fugitive slaves who reached their settlements.
The Ocala Demands was a platform for economic and political reform that was later adopted by the People's Party.In December, 1890, the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, more commonly known as the Southern Farmers' Alliance, its affiliate the Colored Farmers' Alliance, and the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association met jointly in the Marion Opera House in Ocala, Florida, where they ...