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Ripon, city, Fond du Lac county, east-central Wisconsin, U.S. It lies 20 miles (30 km) west of Fond du Lac and 80 miles (130 km) northwest of Milwaukee. In 1844 the Wisconsin Phalanx, a group of followers of the 19th-century French socialist philosopher Charles Fourier, organized a communal settlement there known as Ceresco (for Ceres, Roman goddess of agriculture). It was disbanded in 1851 and absorbed in 1853 by the adjacent settlement of Ripon (founded 1849). The latter, named for Ripon in North Yorkshire, England, was incorporated in 1858 and became a stronghold of the abolition movement. On May 20, ...(100 of 255 words)

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