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Gering, Scotts Bluff Co., Nebraska

Includes the following communities
Gering, Scotts Bluff Co., Nebraska
History

Gering was incorporated in 1890. After irrigation arrived in the area in 1902, the sugarbeet industry flourished and a sugar factory was built there in 1915. Volga German families moved there from Fort Collins and other areas to work in the sugar beet industry.

Notable Individuals
Sources

- Sallet, Richard. Russian-German Settlement in the United States (Fargo, ND: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1974): 52.

Resources

West Lawn Cemetery (findagrave.com)

The following Volga German families settled in and around Gering:

41.826362, -103.657762

Migrated From

50.730833, 9.195556
50.584051, 8.678403
49.631944, 8.365278
50.258703, 9.102003
51.104541, 13.201738
50.187222, 9.156111
50.483333, 9.399722
50.616389, 8.968889
50.385278, 9.196944