Sterling was founded in 1873, but it was not until the arrival of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1887 that the community began to grow. The construction of a Great Western Sugar Refinery in 1905 brought many Volga German immigrants to Sterling.
Many of the Catholic Volga Germans came from Pfeifer to settle in Sterling. In addition Volga Germans from Dietel, Grimm, Holstein, Nieder-Monjou, Rothammel, Schilling, Sewald, and Unterdorf settled in the area.
- Sallet, Richard. Russian-German Settlement in the United States (Fargo, ND: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1974): 61.
- USA Settlement List (Patricia Miller)
- 1920 Federal Census of Logan County
- Riverside Cemetery (FindAGrave)
- Riverside Cemetery (USGenWeb)
Sterling, Colorado (Wikipedia)
Colonies
Sterling Sugar Beet Days (1919).
Beet Factory in Sterling (1919).