Baxter-Snyder Center for Icarian Studies
The Baxter-Snyder Center for Icarian Studies is located in the Archives and Special Collections Unit. It was established in 1977 to bring together in one place material dealing with or written by, this utopian community.
The Icarians, a group of mostly middle class French idealists led by Etienne Cabet (1788-1856), attempted to establish a communistic society in Nauvoo, Illinois, in the 1850's. The group settled at this site, located on the Mississippi River, after the Mormons departed.
