Raritan Bay Union

The Raritan Bay Union was a utopian community in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, active from 1853 until 1860.

[1][2] Maud Honeyman Green writes, "The Union established a progressive boarding school that was a pioneer in co-education.

Girl students were encouraged to speak in public, engage in sports, and act in plays, activities that were frowned upon in other schools.

[3] Others who lived at Raritan Bay Union included Charles Kingsley, Caroline Kirkland, and James G.

[4][failed verification] The early women's rights activist Clarina I. H. Nichols left her two youngest children at Raritan Bay Union when she set out with the New England Emigrant Aid Company for Kansas Territory in 1855.