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100 Years Later, California's Lost Commune Comes Briefly Back to Life

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On May 1, 1914, the Socialist colony of Llano Del Rio was founded in the Antelope Valley, about 70 miles northeast of Los Angeles, on the southern edge of the Mojave Desert.

It lasted about 3½ years, and at its peak more than a thousand people lived there.

On a recent weekend, …read more

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