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The settlement at Friend was started by Volga German emigrants from Red Oak, Iowa, in the 1870s.

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.

Volga German immigrants who were working for the railroad moved from Lincoln and settled in Grand Island.

Harvard was settled by Volga Germans in 1888.

Volga German immigrants settled in Croswell. Sallet reports that there was once a pretty large settlement of Volga Germans in Croswell.

Volga German immigrants who settled in Deckerville came Paulskaya and Kind.

Early Volga German immigrants who settled in Flint came from the following colonies:

Balzer
Erlenbach
Fischer
Grimm
Huck
Messer
Oberdorf
Rosenberg
Schilling
Stahl am Tarlyk

In the northern part of Flint, in a neighborhood known as Pasadena, there were approximately 150 Volga German families living at one time, most employed in the automobile industry.

Volga German immigrants settled in Glendora. Here they were living among ethnic Germans from Russian Volhynia.

Early Volga German immigrants who settled in Mayville came from Rosenberg.

Volga German immigrants who settled in McGregor came from Susannental, Paulskaya, and Kind.