There are No Grog Shops, Low Dance Halls, or Gambling Dens in Utopia: But There Are Cigars!
From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: The community of Burley was one of several utopian experiments that had an opportunity to root and briefly flourish in the frontier of Washington in the late 1800s/early 1900s. The story of Burley isn’t quite as filled with controversy and drama as the other collective communities such as the Puget Sound Co-Operative Colony, Equality, Freeland, and Home. Perhaps that makes the place worth a second…