Title:
Atascadero Colony archive, 1904-1983
Atascadero Colony
Abstract:
Photos, diaries, and ephemera related to the Atascadero Colony and to the lives of colony residents Azor and Edith Kunkee,
and Edith's father William H. Engle.
Date:
1904 (issued)
Subject:
n-us-ca
Engle, Charles H
Engle, William H
Kinsey, Sarah B
Kunkee, Azor
Kunkee, Edith Engle
Atascadero (Calif.)
Note:
William H. Engle (1856-1930) moved to the Atascadero Colony in 1915 from Sherrard County, Illinois with his wife Emma and
daughter Edith. Azor Kunkee (1896-1990) moved to the Atascadero Colony in about 1915 from David City, Nebraska. After serving
in World War I he returned to Atascadero and did surveying for E. G. Lewis' Colony Holding Corporation, where Edith Engle
(1894-1985) also worked. They married in 1920, both enjoyed baseball games, and Azor played in the Atascadero band. The couple
moved to Girard, California in 1923 and moved back to Atascadero about fifteen years later, where they operated the Atascadero
Hardware Store into the mid-1960s.
The Atascadero Colony was founded in 1913 in San Luis Obispo County, California by successful East Coast magazine publisher
Edward Gardner Lewis. This colony was intended as a utopian community designed along the principles of the City Beautiful
Movement, and incorporated cooperative economic endeavors among its residents. An important element of the Atascadero Colony
was the American Woman's Republic, founded by Lewis's wife. Even though Lewis went bankrupt in 1924, the colony survived and
is today the city of Atascadero.
Atascadero Colony.
Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.
Type:
biography
Physical Description:
print
2 manuscript boxes; 15 1/4 x 11 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.
Language:
English
Identifier:
Origin:
California
Copyright Note:
Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.