In 1914 Job Harriman and other socialists established the Llano Del Rio Colony 45 miles north of Los Angeles, California, in Antelope Valley. In 1917 the colony relocated to Louisiana, where it had purchased the former sawmill town of Stables. The colony was founded on the utopian principles of collective ownership, shared labor, and profits, and the colonists believed this system would lead to the betterment of mankind. By 1935 the colony had 28 cottage industries. Its main industry was lumber, including a sawmill, and its farming enterprises included raising poultry and livestock. Billy Goat Hill received its name from the goat herds raised there. Theodore Cuno, one of the founders of Labor Day, was a major benefactor of the colony. The colony grew under the management of George Pickett, who established the “kid colony.” The colony went into receivership in 1937 and closed in 1938. The village of New Llano was incorporated in 1942. Its first mayor was Victor Kildair, and its first aldermen were S. D. Carroll, Joe H. Johnson, and Ira Price.