Bishop Hill Colony, Henry County, Ill. Correspondence, 1850 | Illinois History and Lincoln Collections

Title: Bishop Hill Colony, Henry County, Ill. Correspondence, 1850

Collection identifier: 470

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Bishop Hill Colony, founded in 1846, was a fairly self-contained Swedish communitarian society in Henry County Illinois, engaging in agriculture, linen weaving, and the production of woolen goods.

The correspondence, copied from originals in the Illinois State Historical Library, is published in Harry E. Pratt, "The Murder of Eric Janson, Leader of the Bishop Hill Colony," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 45 (Spring 1952), 55-69.