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Catholic Volga German immigrants settled in Akron, Ohio.

Sometimes called Shield, Shields was settled by Volga German immigrants from Stahl am Karaman.

Perth was settled by Volga German immigrants from the colony of Grimm.

Munich was settled by Volga German immigrants from Dreispitz.

Lisbon was settled by immigrants from Neu-Hussenbach who had originally settled in Nebraska.

Englevale is located in northeastern North Dakota, west of Elliott. It was founded in 1883. The first Volga German families arrived there in 1907.

Elliott was settled by Volga German immigrants from the colony of Neu-Norka who had originally settled in Nebraska. Colonists from Hussenbach also settled there.

Denhoff is located along the Northern Pacific Rail Road where a station was located in 1901.  The postoffice there was established 21 December 1901, and John Steinbrecker served as the first postmaster.  The town was named after his Volga German hometown of Dönhof.

Denhoff was settled by Volga German immigrants from Dönhof and Neu-Dönhof.

Alsen was settled by Volga German immigrants from Dreispitz.

In 1891, Volga Germans from Neu-Straub arrived in the United States headed towards Kansas, when they lost all their money and had to find work in New York. Some of them went north, up the Hudson River, and settled in the village of Stuyvesant Falls in Columbia County. By 1930 there were about 25 families working in and around Stuyvesant mostly in the cotton and paper factories.

Today Stuyvesant Falls is a hamlet in the southeast part of the town of Suyvesant at Kinderhook Creek.