Editing Harvard, Massachusetts (section)

===Fruitlands===
[[File:FruitlandsMuseum.jpg|thumb|[[Fruitlands Museum]], 2008]]
{{main|Fruitlands (transcendental center)|Fruitlands Museums Historic District}}
[[Amos Bronson Alcott]] relocated his family, including his ten-year-old daughter, [[Louisa May Alcott]], to Harvard in June 1843. He and [[Charles Lane (transcendentalist)|Charles Lane]] attempted to establish a utopian [[transcendentalist]] [[socialist]] farm called [[Fruitlands (transcendental center)|Fruitlands]] on the slopes of Prospect Hill in Harvard. The experimental community only lasted 7 months, closing in January 1844. Fruitlands, so called "because the inhabitants hoped to live off the fruits of the land, purchasing nothing from the outside world",<ref name=Fruitlands>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20111024170313/http://www.fruitlands.org/fruitlands_features/farmhouse Fruitlands Museum]}}</ref> saw visits from the likes of [[Henry David Thoreau]] and [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]].<ref name=Compass>Patricia Harris, Anna Mundow, David Lyon, James Marshall, Lisa Oppenheimer. ''Compass American Guides: Massachusetts'', 1st Edition. [[Random House]]. 2003. Pg. 186.</ref> Louisa May Alcott used her experience at Fruitlands as an inspiration for her novel ''[[Little Women]]''.<ref name=Fruitlands />

[[Clara Endicott Sears]], whose Prospect Hill summer estate, The Pergolas,<ref name=Compass /> restored Fruitlands and opened it as a museum in 1914.<ref name=Fruitlands/> On the grounds of Fruitlands Museum there is also a Shaker house, which was relocated there from Harvard's Shaker Village by Sears in 1920. It is the first Shaker museum ever established in the United States.<ref name=Compass /> In addition, Sears opened a gallery on the property dedicated to Native American history. Sears became interested in Native Americans after [[Nipmuck]] arrowheads were found around her property on Prospect Hill, which the Nipmuck Indians had called Makamacheckamucks.<ref name=Kinnicutt>Kinnicutt, Lincoln Newton. ''Indian Place Names in Worcester County Massachusetts''. Common Wealth Press. 1905. Pg. 20.</ref>

Originally, Sears' Fruitlands property spanned {{convert|458|acre|km2}}, but in 1939, {{convert|248|acre|km2}} were seized by [[eminent domain]] for expansion of [[Fort Devens]]. As of 2010, that land is now part of the [[Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge]].<ref name=Fruitlands />