New Harmony, Indiana was established by the Harmony Society in 1814, however, in 1824 they decided to sell their property and return to Pennsylvania.Robert Owen, a Welsh industrialist and social reformer, purchased the town in 1825 with the intention of creating a new utopian community and renamed it New Harmony. While the Owenite social experiment was an economic failure just two years after it began, the community made some important contributions to American society. Photo by Kathy Weiser-Alexander.