While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: • Some US reformers sought to improve society in the 1800s by building utopias. • A utopia is a community intended to represent a perfect society based on a specific set of principles. • One such community was Brook Farm near Boston, Massachusetts. • It was founded in 1841 by writer George Ripley. • Ripley wrote in a letter that his goal for Brook Farm was “to guarantee the highest mental freedom, by providing all with labor, adapted to their tastes and talents, and securing to them the fruits of their industry.”