The town of Arroyo Corto (Short Creek) was founded on 15 April 1884 by Juan Biga and Benigno Gossetti. Its first inhabitants were from the Italian city of Torino, and it became known as "La Torinesa." Over the years, many Volga German families moved there.
The expedition of the Stoessel brothers (Adán & Andrés) to travel by car to New York started in Arroyo Corto on 15 April 1928.
In the early 1930s, following several years of drought, Volga German families who had settled earlier in the rural areas of La Pampa Province resettled to more promising areas like Algarrobo in search of work.
Estación Algarrobo was established when a train station was located there on 31 August 1897. The town of Juan Cousté which was officially founded on 13 December 1909 is serviced by the Algarrobo train station, and the Volga Germans have used the name of Algarrobo to describe this area in which they settled.
Father Zubowitsch was a member of the Order of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Order). He served the parish of Schuck from March 1803 to 2 August 1808. He served the parish of Mariental from 9 August 1808 to 28 February 1809.
Pastor Zocher was a native of Dresden, Germany, born there in 1872. He came to the United States in 1890 to study for the ministry. He attended the University of the Pacific at San Jose, California, and became an American citizen on 9 September 1895. A few days later he married Barbara Lou Lindemeyer. After serving Ebenezer German Congregational Church in Portland, Oregon, Pastor Zocher went on to the Zion Congregational Church in Ritzville, Washington (1928-1933), the First German church in Dryden, Washington (1934-1936) and St. Mark’s Church in Olympia, Washington (1931-1940).
The Rev. Karl Zimmer, son of joiner Johannes Zimmer, was born 7 January 1863 in Mirau (Kurland). He married Julia Amalie Nilsson on 15 September 1892 in the Crimea. She was born 31 July 1870 in Pernau and died 4 September 1921 in Baku (Caucasus). Pastor Zimmer died on 19 October 1939 in Rohr b. Stuttgart (Germany).
He studied theology at the Basel Mission and was ordained on 10 July 1890 [some sources: 13 July 1890] in Ludwigsburg. He served the following congregations in Russia:
Father Johannes Zimmerman, son of Andreas Zimmermann, was born in 1885 in the Volga German colony of Seelmann. After completing his studies at the seminary in Saratov to 1908 he was ordained a priest and began serving the parishes in Astrakhan and then Tsaritsyn (Volgograd).
He served the parish in Liebental from 1910-1913; the parishes in Dehler and Brabander from 1913-1918; the parishes of Rothammel and Seelmann from 1918-1923; and finally, the parishes of Dehler and Brabander again from 1923-1925. In January 1929 he was again serving parishners in Brabander.
Father Zacharewitsch was a member of the Order of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Order). He served the parish of Rohleder from March 1803 to 26 September 1807. He served the parish of Semenovka from 27 September 1807 to September 1820.
The Rev. Hans Rudolph Wulschlegel was born on 6 May 1759 in Rud, Switzerland. He died on 24 August 1823 in Sarepta. He served the congregation in Sarepta.
The Rev. Jakob Würthner was from Schwenningen in Württemberg and died on 30 October 1884 in Sarepta. He served the congregations in Frank and Hussenbach from 1838 to 1868.
Father Wolf was born in 1890 in Neu-Liebental. On the completion of his studies at the seminary to Saratov, he continued his studies abroad and was ordained in 1918.
He began his service in Dnipropetrovsk. From 1917 to 1919, before closure of the Saratov Seminary, he served as a professor of scripture and history and was then responsible for the relocation of the seminary to Odessa.