| 1848 | Oneida community. John Humphrey Noyes (1811-1886) establishes this utopian socialist community on a nine-hundred-acre farm in central New York. Branch communities would be established throughout the northeastern states, but controversy surrounding the group's concept of "Complex Marriage," combining polygamy and selective breeding, caused Noyes to relocate the community to Canada in 1879. |
| 1848 | The Independent. The New York weekly, initially affiliated with the Congregationalists, debuts. Contributors included Whittier, Lowell, and Stowe. It continued until 1928. |
