Villa Iris was founded on 27 May 1900 by Hugo Stroeder on land that belonged to Federico Álvarez de Toledo. It was intended to be an urban center of an extensive agricultural and livestock colony of about 56,000 hectares. Following the speeches on the founding day, a corner stone was laid for St. Bernard. The church was never constructed.
The first settlers were from Germany and Russia, followed by Spanish, Italian, Danish, Swiss, Uruguayans, Lebanese, and Creoles. In the early 1930s, following several years of drought, Volga German families who had settled earlier in the rural areas of La Pampa and Buenos Aires Provinces north of Villa Iris resettled to towns and villages like Villa Iris in search of work.
Iglesia Nuestra Señora del Carmen (Our Lady of Carmel Catholic Church) is located in Villa Iris (Av San Martín 292).
- Obituaries published in Argentinisches Volksfreund
Villa Iris (Wikipedia) - in Spanish
Steeple of Iglesia Nuestra Señora del Carmen in Villa Iris, Buenos Aires Prov.
Source: Cristian Bertinat.
Iglesia Nuestra Señora del Carmen in Villa Iris, Buenos Aires Prov.
Source: Cristian Bertinat.
Location of Villa Iris.
Sign entering Villa Iris.
Source: Cristian Bertinat.