Loveland is one of the oldest Colorado settlements of Volga Germans. Many of them came to Loveland directly from the colonies of Frank, Ober-Monjou, and Rosenberg while another large group came from McCook, Nebraska, where they had settled earlier.
Volga Germans arrived in Larimer County in large numbers shortly after Loveland's sugar factory opened in 1901. In the Spring of 1902, "chartered" trains sponsored by the sugar companies brought hundreds of Volga German families from Nebraska and Kansas to northern Colorado to work in the sugar beet industry.
- Sallet, Richard. Russian-German Settlement in the United States (Fargo, ND: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1974): 50-51.
- USA Settlement List (Patricia Miller)
Loveland, Colorado (Wikipedia)
Great Western Sugar Beet Factory in Loveland, Colorado (ca.1910).
Source: Cindy Feneis Collection of the Loveland Historical Society.