Berrien Springs

HISTORY

Volga German immigrants who settled in Berrien Springs came from the following colonies:

Schilling
Bangert
Stahl am Tarlyk

They moved to the area beginning in 1910 from Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Racine, Wisconsin. These Volga German families are mixed in with many German families from Volhynia.

 

VOLGA GERMAN CONGREGATIONS

Sources

Sallet, Richard. Russian-German Settlement in the United States(Fargo, ND: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1974): 54.