Includes the following communities
Batesland, Shannon Co., South Dakota
History
Batesland was settled in 1923 by Volga Germans moving there from the Scottsbluff area in Nebraska.
Sources
- Sallet, Richard. Russian-German Settlement in the United States (Fargo, ND: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1974): 53.
External Links
Batesland, South Dakota (Wikipedia)
The following Volga German families settled in and around Batesland, South Dakota:
43.128306, -102.10111
Migrated From
49.527389, 8.666944