Saginaw began as a thriving timber town that became an industrial metropolis in the 20th Century.
Volga German immigrants who settled in Saginaw beginning in 1902 came from the following colonies:
Beideck
Dreispitz
Erlenbach
Holstein
Krasnoyar
Kukkus
Norka
Oberdorf
Paulskaya
Rosenberg
Schilling
Schulz
Shcherbakovka
Stahl am Tarlyk
They were attracted to the area by the sugar beet industry that was being developed in the Saginaw Valley.
Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church
St. John Lutheran Church
St. Paul Lutheran Church
- Pickelhaupt, Bill. The Volga Germans of Michigan's Thumb (Fort Gratiot, MI: Flyblister, 2009): 44-45, 234-270.
- Sallet, Richard. Russian-German Settlement in the United States (Fargo, ND: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1974): 54.
- USA Settlement List (Patricia Miller)
- 1920 Census, Saginaw County (Eugene Jenkins)
- City of Saginaw Cemeteries Search (Public Libraries of Saginaw)
- Forest Lawn Cemetery (Findagrave)
- Oakwood Cemetery (Findagrave)
- Obituary Index (Public Libraries of Saginaw)
- Roselawn Memorial Gardens (Findagrave)
- Saginaw City Directory (1923)
Saginaw, Michigan (Wikipedia)