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Belle Fourche, Butte Co., South Dakota

Includes the following communities
Belle Fourche, Butte Co., South Dakota
Fruitdale, Butte Co., South Dakota
History

Belle Fourche was settled by Volga German immigrants who came to work in the sugar beet fields that were made possible by an 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

Pine Slope Cemetery (findagrave.com)

External Links

Belle Fourche, South Dakota (Wikipedia)

The following Volga German families settled in and around Belle Fourche:
Amen
Dahlinger
from
Rosenberg
Keil
from
Katharinental
Kindsfater
from
Dietel
Kling
from
Oberdorf
Kuenzel
from
Warenburg
Lungren
from
Franzosen
Pflaumer
from
Straßburg
Pister
from
Merkel
Rieb
from
Nieder-Monjou
Romick
from
Rosenberg
Romig
from
Rosenberg
Rothermel
from
Katharinenstadt
Ruff
from
Dietel
Schott
from
Grimm
Zwetzig
from
Morgentau

Colonies

44.671373, -103.852148

Volga Colonies

Migrated From