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Rose Valley, an Arts and Crafts colony built around a dead textile mill
Rose Valley, Pennsylvania
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The architect William Lightfoot Price bought eighty acres around a failed textile mill on Ridley Creek in 1901 and set out to build a working community of craftspeople on Ruskin and Morris lines. He was also a follower of Henry George and co-founded the single tax colony at Arden, Delaware. The borough that grew out of it covers less than three quarters of a square mile and had 1,190 residents in 2023.
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