Edison is a census-designated place (CDP) in Skagit County, Washington, United States.

[4][5] In 1897, Edison became the headquarters of a national utopian socialist project known as Equality Colony, backed by an organization known as the Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth.

[6] The socialist colony was established on 280 acres just outside Edison and it engaged in farming and timber milling and included a school as well as blacksmith and copper-working shops.

The Edison-based Brotherhood also published a newspaper called Industrial Freedom for national circulation to its approximately 3,000 supporters.

[7] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.5 km2), all of it land.