Topolobampo Colony
- Collection Designation
- Special Collections
- Genre
- Publications
- Language
- English
- Description
- The Topolobampo cooperative colony was founded in 1886 by a group of American colonists at Sinaloa, Mexico, at the head of the Gulf of California. Leader Albert Kimsey Owen (1847-1916) was a surveyor, civil engineer, and utopian socialist. He dreamed of establishing a railroad from Texas to the site of "Pacific City," his ideal planned settlement. Owen funded his ideas through his Credit Foncier Company of Sinaloa. His ambitious plans were never fully realized, and the colony ultimately failed.
- Note
Materials Digitized - listed below: Social Solutions (9 issues, a 1886 English translation of the 1871 Spanish original) The New City (vols. 1-2, 1892-1893)
- Institutional Owner
- Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
- Restrictions on Access
- There are no restrictions on access to this resource.
Manifest
- Christian Goodwillie
- Director and Curator of Special Collections and Archives
- E-mail: cgoodwil@hamilton.edu
- Telephone: (315) 859-4447
- Special Collections
- Burke Library
- 198 College Hill Road
- Clinton, NY 13323
