Trivia 4-22-19 three parts!

[Trivia Master]

It was 1856 and Kansas was starting to bleed. In response to the Kansas – Nebraska Act and a concerted effort to establish slavery in the new Kansas Territory, Northern abolitionists encouraged and financially supported efforts to settle the area with their own supporters. Shortly before the town of Lawrence was sacked by pro-slavery settlers on May 21, 1856, a group of abolitionist settlers arrived at the planned location of their new settlement.

This group had other agendas besides abolitionism. The architectural plans for the community and its buildings reflected an architectural style that was briefly popular in the 1850s. The group espoused a lifestyle choice that was 100+ years ahead of its time. Unfortunately for the new community, its English born founder and chief promoter was not capable of translating his dreams into reality and the settlement was a ghost town within months.

1. What was the name of the settlement chosen to reflect its architecture?


2. What was the lifestyle choice the settlers made?


3. What was the name of the settlement's founder and promoter?

credit: @ErnieMac

 

[hughes]

1. Octagon City
2. Vegitarianism
3> Henry Clubb

 

[SWMODave]

1. What was the name of the settlement chosen to reflect its architecture? - Octagon City
2. What was the lifestyle choice the settlers made? - vegeterian
3. What was the name of the settlement's founder and promoter? - Henry Chubb
Source

 

[Wallyfish]

1) Octagon City - all buildings were to be eight sided
2) They were to become vegetarians
3) Henry Clubb


https://timeline.com/the-abolitionist-vegetarian-octagon-obsessed-utopia-that-never-was-d01f6b95c59e

 

[captaindrew]

1. Octagon City 2. Vegetarian 3. Henry Clubb https://timeline.com/the-abolitionist-vegetarian-octagon-obsessed-utopia-that-never-was-d01f6b95c59e

 

[ErnieMac]

Credit for question. Enjoy.

 

[DBF]

1. Octagon City
2. They were Vegetarians
3. Henry Clubb
https://timeline.com/the-abolitionist-vegetarian-octagon-obsessed-utopia-that-never-was-d01f6b95c59e

 

[connecticut yankee]

1. Octagon City is a ghost town in Allen County, Kansas. It was a failed intentional community (see below) that was founded in 1856 about six miles south of Humboldt, Kansas near the Neosho River. It was created by the Vegetarian Kansas Emigration Company, headed by prominent vegetarian 3. Henry Clubb and entrepreneurs Charles DeWolfe and John McLaurin. The original intent was to build a 2. vegetarian lifestyle commune on the south side of the Neosho River for vegetarians only, but investor interest in a non-vegetarian moral community was much higher and so the decision was made to build Octagon City on the north side of the Neosho River to make the entire project sustainable. Members of Octagon City were under oath to educate their children and uphold a moral lifestyle.
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(***An intentional community is a planned residential community designed from the start to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, or spiritual vision and often follow an alternative lifestyle.)

 

[WJC]

It was 1856 and Kansas was starting to bleed. In response to the Kansas – Nebraska Act and a concerted effort to establish slavery in the new Kansas Territory, Northern abolitionists encouraged and financially supported efforts to settle the area with their own supporters. Shortly before the town of Lawrence was sacked by pro-slavery settlers on May 21, 1856, a group of abolitionist settlers arrived at the planned location of their new settlement.

This group had other agendas besides abolitionism. The architectural plans for the community and its buildings reflected an architectural style that was briefly popular in the 1850s. The group espoused a lifestyle choice that was 100+ years ahead of its time. Unfortunately for the new community, its English born founder and chief promoter was not capable of translating his dreams into reality and the settlement was a ghost town within months.

1. What was the name of the settlement chosen to reflect its architecture?


2. What was the lifestyle choice the settlers made?


3. What was the name of the settlement's founder and promoter?

credit: @ErnieMac

1, Octagon City
2. Vegetarianism
3. Henry S. Clubb (1827- 1922)

 

[Brenal]

1. Octagon City
2. Vegetarianism
3. Henry Clubb

 

[Big Sarge]

1. Octagon City
2. Vegetarian commune
3. Henry Clubb

wikipedia.org/wiki/Octagon_City

 

[Ole Miss]

1) Octagon City
2) Vegetarianism
3) Henry S. Clubb
Regards
David

 

[JF Reynolds]

1. Octagon City
2. Vegetarianism
3. Henry S. Clubb

Edit - Correct, JF Reynolds. Welcome to the trivia game and to CivilWarTalk.

Hope you'll come back and play again.

hoosier

 

[sarladaise]

1. Octagon City
2. Vegetarianism
3. Henry Clubb

 

[JOHN42768]

1) Octagon City, Kansas
2) vegetarianism
3)Henry S. Clubb
source: https://www.kshs.org/p/kansas-historical-quarterly-kansas-a-vegetarian-utopia/13219

 

[luinrina]

1) Octagon City
2) The settlement was supposed to be vegetarians only.
3) Henry Stephens Clubb

Sources: https://ivu.org/history/usa19/clubb.html, Wikipedia, https://gizmodo.com/what-utopias-have-to-do-with-the-19th-century-craze-for-1564535216

 

[Stony]

1. Octagon City
2. Vegetarians
3. Henry S Clubb
source-https://www.kshs.org/p/kansas-historical-quarterly-kansas-a-vegetarian-utopia/13219

 

[kholland]

1 Octagon City

2 Vegetarianism

3 Henry Clubb

 

[FarawayFriend]

1) Octagon City

2) They were vegetarians

3) Henry Stephen Clubb

Sources:
https://www.revolvy.com/page/Octagon-City

http://www.chartistancestors.co.uk/henry-clubb-1827-1921/

 

[HarlechMan]

1. Octagon City
2. Vegetarianism
3. Henry S. Clubb
https://timeline.com/the-abolitionist-vegetarian-octagon-obsessed-utopia-that-never-was-d01f6b95c59e