Includes the following communities
Nisland, Butte Co., South Dakota
History
Nisland was settled by Volga German beet farmers responding to a opportunities brought about by a new irrigation project in 1905.
Sources
- Sallet, Richard. Russian-German Settlement in the United States (Fargo, ND: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1974): 53.
Resources
Nisland Cemetery (findagrave.com)
External Links
Nisland, South Dakota (Wikipedia)
The following Volga German families settled in or around Nisland:
44.673041, -103.553526
Volga Colonies
Migrated From
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49.838495, 6.477153
49.100285, 8.973628
49.73521, 8.738512
49.509595, 8.179546
49.171735, 8.940576
50.322222, 9.537222
51.316667, 9.166667