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Tennessee Colony is an unincorporated community in Anderson County, in the U.S. state of Texas. [1] According to the Handbook of Texas , the community had a population of 300 in 2000. It is located within the Palestine, Texas micropolitan area.
The Ruskin Colony (or Ruskin Commonwealth Association) was a 250-member, utopian socialist cooperative established in Dickson County in 1894. Initially located near Tennessee City, it relocated to what is now Ruskin. Internal conflict had brought about the dissolution of the colony by 1899. [1]
That year, Hughes made his last annual visit to the colony, and The Rugbeian ceased publication. [2] In 1892, Sir Henry Kimber reorganized the Board of Aid as the Rugby Tennessee Company, which focused on harvesting the region's natural resources, all but abandoning the anti-materialistic ideals on which the colony was founded. [5]
Massey Lake stands along Farm to Market Road 2054, 14 mi (23 km) northwest of Palestine and 2 mi (3.2 km) southwest of Tennessee Colony in the western part of Anderson County. [ 2 ] Demographics
The prison, near Tennessee Colony, is along Farm to Market Road 2054. The unit, on a 20,518 acres (8,303 ha) plot of land, is co-located with Beto, Gurney, Michael, and Powledge units. [2] With a capacity of 4,139 inmates, Coffield is the TDCJ's largest prison. [3] Coffield opened in June 1965. [2] In 2011 the Stiles Unit metal products plant ...
The Ruskin Colony was founded by Julius Augustus Wayland (1854–1912), a newspaper editor and socialist from Indiana.The roots of the Ruskin project can be found in the movement within American socialism at the time, towards the creation of new model colonies which would, in theory, challenge the American industrial system by creating ethical alternatives built in rural settings.
Conquistador Hernando de Soto, first European to visit Tennessee. In the 16th century, three Spanish expeditions passed through what is now Tennessee. [12] The Hernando de Soto expedition entered the Tennessee Valley via the Nolichucky River in June 1540, rested for several weeks at the village of Chiaha (near the modern Douglas Dam), and proceeded southward to the Coosa chiefdom in northern ...
The unit is along Farm to Market Road 2054, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Tennessee Colony. The unit, on 20,518 acres (8,303 ha) of land, is co-located with the Beto , Coffield , and Powledge prison units and the Gurney Transfer Unit . [ 2 ]