Interesting Stampless Cover From Massachusetts To NJ

I photoshopped it to bring the cancel out a bit. The exciting thing is that it is addressed to "The North American Phalanx" - an early socialist type commune in Monmouth NJ.

From Wikipedia

"Fourierists also attempted to establish a community in Monmouth County, New Jersey. The North American Phalanx community constructed a Phalanstère—Fourier's concept of a communal living structure—out of two farmhouses and an addition that linked the two. The community lasted from 1844 to 1856, when a fire destroyed the community's flour and saw mills, alongside several workshops. The community had already begun to decline after an ideological schism in 1853."

Dated May 13th, 1849, Braintree Ma, stamped New Bedford Ms. (Massachusetts)

Pretty neat. I've read that the building in which this was located was destroyed in a fire in 1972.