Estero, Florida: Failed Hollow Earth Utopia
The people who lived at The Koreshan Unity knew that the Earth is hollow and that we all live inside it.
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Koreshan State Park, south of Fort Myers (on the Gulf Coast), Florida, was the site of a religious commune started back in the late 1800's by a physician named Dr. Cyrus Teed. Dr. Teed was a very religious man, who went by the name "Koresh", which is (I believe) a transliteration into Hebrew of his first name.
His colony was into a sort of communal agricultural lifestyle, but the best part is that the people of "Koreshan", believed that the sun was inside the hollow sphere of the earth. Like the chocolate center in a tootsie pop. They developed some rather unique "experiments" to evaluate their philosophy's central concept. The park replicates these experiments, and has an original copy of the model they used to explain their cosmological views to the uninitiated.
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Failed Hollow Earth Utopia
Koreshan Unity Settlement State Historic Site
- Address:
- 3800 Corkscrew Rd, Estero, FL
- Directions:
- Koreshan Unity Settlement State Historic Site. I-75 exit 123. West on Corkscrew Rd two miles. Entrance to the park is just west of US 41.
- Hours:
- Daily 8-5. Exhibit open weekends only. (Call to verify)
- Phone:
- 239-992-0311
- Admission:
- $5 per car
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One of many "Dopey Utopias" around the US, Estero, FL was to be the capital city -- a New Jerusalem -- of the Koreshan philosophy. Koresh was buried in an elaborate vault there, but it was washed away by storms. We have a note that the Koreshan Unity Festival is during the second week of April.