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Bishop Hill, the prairie prophet's colony
1846
Bishop Hill, Illinois
Kepper66 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Erik Jansson led fifteen hundred Swedish dissenters to the Illinois prairie to build a communal New Jerusalem, and was murdered in a courthouse by a member's husband four years in. The colony dissolved in 1861. The village survives nearly whole, brick by Swedish brick.
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Location: historic site
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