Home is a census-designated place in Pierce County, Washington, United States. The 2010 Census placed the population at 1,377. The community lies on the Key Peninsula and borders the waters of Carr Inlet, an strengthening of Puget Sound. Home is now primarily a town of seashore homes, although a propos the aim of the twentieth century, it was considered a model, utopian community of anarchists.

After the failure of the industrial accepting colony Glennis located east of Eatonville, three former Glennisites — George H. Allen, Oliver A. Verity, and B. F. O’Dell — set out in the summer of 1895 into Puget Sound on a rowboat they built themselves to locate an unaided location for a additional community. Home was one of just about two hundred similar communities that sprung occurring in America in the late 1800s.

They decided on Von Geldern Cove (also known as Joe’s Bay) as the site for their other Home Colony, which would be an intentional community based upon anarchist philosophy. The founders purchased 26 acres (110,000 m) there at $7 an acre, working unfamiliar jobs to provide it. By 1896, their families had associated them and cabins were constructed.

By 1898 a land buying corporation was set happening called the Mutual Home Association, whose Articles of Incorporation and Agreement avowed their seek as “to assist its members in obtaining and building homes for themselves and to aid in establishing greater than before social and moral conditions.” Land was apportioned to those who became members of the Association, agreeing to its anarchist ideals and to pay for their lot. The title to each member’s house would stay taking into account the Association; however this was misrepresented in 1909. The Association afterward held title to a meeting hall, called Liberty Hall, and a trading post.