My current history course has been exploring the subject of reformers from the Antebellum era in US History and I was curious as to what individual experiences were like in these Utopias.
I read this wonderful article on the archaeology of utopias if you want to give it a read.
Tarlow, Sarah. 2002. Excavating Utopia: Why Archaeologists should study “Ideal” Communities of the Nineteenth Century. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 6(4):299-323.