Documents from the Ohio History Connection’s Society of Separatists of Zoar Papers:
Receipt Books
Maps
Records of Society Meetings
Hotel Guest Book
Deeds
Letters
Eyewitness accounts of Zoar from travelers, journalists and historians
Newspapers
Secondary sources
Developed by communal studies scholar Donald E. Pitzer
Communalism as a means to an end, not the end itself
What are the goals of a communal society? Were they achieved?
What did the Society of Separatists of Zoar hope to achieve through communalism?
How did the introduction of canals and railroads help them achieve their goals? How did it hinder them?
How did canals and railroads affect their system of communalism?