Josiah Warren founded another village between 1845 and 1846.  To purchase the land for this village he sold his printer that he had patented for stereotyping.  Warren wrote a book entitled, “Equitable Commerce” in 1846.  As well as another publication, “True Civilization” which was considered his most important work. On May 18, 1847 Warren and his friends celebrated the 25^thanniversary of the opening of the Times Store.

 In June 1847 he founded another village thirty miles outside of Cincinnati in Claremont.  There he built six homes the purpose was to see if people who buy their own homes and supply their own needs for the exchange of labor.  Within six months the homes were almost paid for and others joined the community building two story residences.  Within three years the community had built a saw mill and grist mill where people could exchange their labor for products with the use of labor notes.  (Bailie, page 55)  Due to the high cost of surrounding land, most of the residents ended up moving to Minnesota after a few years.

In 1850 Warren moved to New York City where he became friends with a philosopher and lecturer, Stephen Pearl Andrews.  In 1851 Andrews lectured on “The Science of Society” this was a series of lectures where he discussed Warren’s theory of equity as well as other philosopher’s theories.  Soon Warren started giving “Parlor Conversations” throughout the area.  It was these lectures and talks which sold the public on Warren’s theory.

Again another location was selected for his experiment, this time on Long Island in an area close to the rail road station (Thompson Station) and yet on land that proved to impossible to farm.  There were no trees only a few scrub oaks so the community would not be able to rely on lumbering as an industry.  Therefore market gardening was considered as a possible industry for this community that would come to be known as “Modern Times.”

-M. Koferl, Local History Newsletter,   October 2006