How many communistic societies were there in the United States in the 1800s?

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Request for Question Clarification by czh-ga on 25 Oct 2005 16:01 PDT

Did you mean "communal societies"? Will this link answer your question?

http://www.une.edu/library/subguide/communal.asp
Communal Societies: Selected Resources on the History and Founders of
Intentional Communities

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Clarification of Question by roger1946-ga on 26 Oct 2005 22:11 PDT

I lost a source that said there were some 200 communal societies in
the US in the 1800s.  Since there was no "Communism" in those days, I
was using communistic in its factual sense of everyone working common
land and no private property.  I'd really like to get a statistic and
not a list of books.
Thanks for any help you might be able to give me.  Unfortunately, my
questions are not as simple as what year did Columbus set sail for
India.
Thanks, Roger

I am not sure just what you mean by "communistic societies".  Would
that include religious communes?  They were perhaps better
"communists" than what the political movement(s) produced.  You can
read about them here, for a start:
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/communalism5.htm

Questia, the online booksite lists several books on communism in USA. 
No. 4 on this list could be a good start:
http://www.questia.com/library/politics-and-government/communism-in-america.jsp