Its founders were members of a former Bellamyite colony who bought 26 acres and formally organized as the Mutual Home Association in January 1898.
Its colonists lived as individuals rather than cooperatively and tolerated a wide degree of social practices, including free love, free speech.
They organized few cooperative institutions aside from a cooperative store (1902), some mutual construction projects, and a weekly anarchist paper, Discontent: Mother of Progress.
The colony's numerous visiting speakers included Emma Goldman.
Following 1909 changes to the association's articles of incorporation allowed land to transfer from their mutual trust to private ownership, Home declined as a cooperative community but remained a home for anarchists.