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HISTORY

Following the sugarbeet industry, Volga Germans first settled in Bayard in January, 1913, having first stopped in Gering. This first group of five families were from Franzosen and had earlier settled in Sugar CityColorado.

The Great Western Sugarbeet factory was built in Bayard in 1917.

 

VOLGA GERMAN CONGREGATIONS

 

VOLGA GERMAN FAMILIES

Sources

Sallet, Richard. Russian-German Settlement in the United States (Fargo, ND: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1974): 52.