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The place names and country
locations given below are from "List of Hutterite Colonies in North America" (pages 364-366, part of
Appendix Fifteen) of the book "Hutterite
Society" (first
edition, 403 pages) by John A. Hostetler, published
©
copyright 1974 by Johns Hopkins University Press of Baltimore, Maryland; ISBN
0-8018-1584-3. FEEFHS thanks Johns Hopkins University Press for its permission to republish this list of Hutterite colonies and thus make it more widely available to genealogy record searchers thru the FEEFHS Web Site. FEEFHS also gives thanks to retired sociology and anthropology professor John A. Hostetler (formerly of Temple University in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) for his encouragement and help of our efforts to make Hutterite sources and information of value more widely accessable to genealogy record searchers worldwide. Background The "65 Lehrerleut Colonies" list presented below represents the third of three sections of Appendix Fifteen "Hutterite Society" as of the last year reported by Hostetler in the first edition of his book. At the time of Hostetler's first edition (1973-1974) he reported there were 229 Hutterite colonies in North America. He estimated they contained about 20,000 Hutterites. A 1996 Internet article estimates at least 400 colonies, while a separate estimate places an average of 90 members per colony for a total of betwen 36,000 and 40,000 Hutteries. An unknown number of other Hutterites in North America left communal life to become "Prairieleuts". They will not be found in the records of these groups of colonies, nor is a Juliusleut group in Ontario, Canada where relationships with fourty persons of the Enz family were severed in the early 1950s. Also a related "Society of Brothers" (SOB), a "Buderhof" splinter group founded in Germany in 1920 by Eberhard Arnold (1883-1935) that spent some time in Paraguay is not included in this lists. In 1974 there were the SOB communities of Woodcrest in Rifton, NY, Oak Lane (became New Meadow Run) in Farmington Pennsylvania, Evergreen in Norfolk, Connecticut and Darvell at Robertsbridge, Sussex, England. In 1973-74 the SOB under the leadership of the Rifton New York colony is said to have 1,000 persons. In 1996 they are thought to have about 300 persons per colony and perhaps as many as 8 communities. However at present time they are not part of the original Hutterite group founded in 1528 and thus not part of these lists either. This information was transcribed by the webmaster into a Works database and reformatted into a "user friendly" flat file database for the web. In doing so the Colony "town" address was augmented with the county for U. S. Colonies and the province or state location was added to the "Colony Name" and "Parent Colony" columns for clarity as some colonies of the same name exist in both Canada and the U.S. The Lehrerleut, lead by Jacob Wipf, a teacher, (lehrer in German) was formed as a colony after these members arrived in South Dakota Year Founded ... Colony Name ... Location: City (County) State/Province ... Parent Colony (For prior periods, see Hutterite Society chapter "Life in Russia" [pages 91-118] for more detail.) 1877-1929 ... Old Elmspring, South Dakota ... Extinct (SD) ...From the Ukraine 1888-1934 ... Rockport, South Dakota ... Extinct (SD) ... Old Elmspring, South Dakota 1900-1918 ... New Elmspring, South Dakota ... Extinct (SD) ... Old Elmspring, South Dakota 1910-1918 ... Milford, South Dakota ... Extinct (SD) ... Old Elmspring, South Dakota 1918 ............ Milford, Alberta ... Raymond, AL ... Milford, South Dakota 1918 ............ New Elmspring, Alberta ... Magrath, AL ... New Elmspring, South Dakota 1918 ........... Old Elmspring, Alberta ... Magrath, AL ... Old Elmspring, South Dakota 1918 ............ Rockport, Alberta ... Magrath, AL ... Rockport, South Dakota 1920 ............ Big Bend, Alberta ... Cardston, AL ... New Elmspring, Alberta 1924 ............ Miami, Alberta ... New Dayton, AL ... Milford, Alberta 1929 ............ Elmspring, Alberta ... Warner, AL ... Old Elmspring, South Dakota 1932 ............ Hutterville, Alberta ... Magrath, AL ... Rockport, Alberta 1932 ............ New Rockport, Alberta ... New Dayton, AL ...Rockport, Alberta 1934 ............ O. K. Colony, Alberta ... Raymond, AL ... Rockport, South Dakota 1935 ............ Rock Lake, Alberta ... Wrentham, AL ... Old Elmspring, Alberta 1935 ............ Sunnyside, Alberta ... Warner, AL ... Elmspring, Alberta 1937 ............ Crystal Springs, Alberta ... Magrath, AL ... New Elmspring, Alberta 1937 ............ McMillan, Alberta ... Cayley, AL ... Big Bend, Alberta 1945 ............ Milford, Montana ... Augusta (Lewis) MT ... Milford, Alberta 1947 ............ Birch Creek, Montana ... Valier (Toole) MT ... New Elmspring, Alberta 1948 ............ Miami, Montana ... Pendroy (Teton) MT ... Miami, Alberta 1948 ............ New Rockport, Montana ... Choteau (Teton) MT ... New Rockport, Alberta 1948 ............ Rockport, Montana ... Pendroy (Teton) MT ... Rockport, Alberta 1949 ............ Bench, Saskatchewan ... Shaunavon, SK ... Old Elmspring, Alberta 1949 ............ Miller, Montana ... Choteau (Teton) MT ... O. K. Colony, Alberta 1950 ............ Glacier, Montana ... Cut Bank (Glacier) MT ... Elmspring, Alberta 1950 ............ Hillside, Montana ... Sweet Grass* (Toole) MT ... Sunnyside, Alberta 1950 ............ Newdale, Alberta ... Milo, AL ... Rock Lake, Alberta 1951 ............ Winnifred, Alberta ... Medicine Hat, AL ... Milford, Alberta 1952 ............ Acadia, Alberta ... Oyen, AL ... Crystal Springs, Alberta 1952 ............ Cypress, Saskatchewan ... Maple Creek, SK ... Big Bend, Alberta 1952 ............ Tompkins, Saskatchewan ... Tompkins, SK ... New Elmspring, Alberta 1953 ............ Rosedale, Alberta ... Etzikom, AL ... Hutterville, Alberta 1955 ............ Springside, Alberta ... Duchess, AL ... New Rockport, Alberta 1956 ............ Handhills, Alberta ... Hanna, AL ... McMillan, Alberta 1959 ............ Martindale, Montana ... Martindale** (Meagher) MT ... Miami, Montana 1960 ............ Springdale, Montana ... White Sulphur*** (Meagher) MT ... Milford, Montana 1961 ............ Sage Creek, Montana ... Chester (Liberty) MT ... Miller, Montana 1962 ............ Duncan Ranch, Montana ... Harlowton (Wheatland) MT ... Birch Creek, Montana 1962 ............ Newell, Alberta ... Bassano, AL ... O. K., Alberta 1963 ............ Glidden, Saskatchewan ... Glidden, SK ... Miami, Alberta 1963 ............ Main Centre, Saskatchewan ... Rush Lake, SK ... Rockport, Alberta 1963 ............ Hilldale, Montana ... Havre (Hill) MT ... Rockport, Montana 1963 ............ Rimrock, Montana ... Sunburst (Toole) MT ... Hillside, Montana 1963 ............ Waldeck, Saskatchewan ... Swift Current, SK ... Elmspring, Alberta 1964 ............ Bow City, Alberta ... Brooks, AL ... Elmspring, Alberta 1965 ............ Castor, Alberta ... Castor, AL ... Hutterville, Alberta 1965 ............ South Bend, Alberta ... Alliance, AL ... Winnifred, Alberta 1967 ............ Haven, Saskatchewan ... Fox Valley, SK ... Acadia, Alberta 1968 ............ Baildon, Saskachewan ... Moose Jaw, SK ... Springside, Alberta 1968 ............ Brandt, Alberta ... Brant, AL ... Rock Lake, Alberta 1968 ............ Smiley, Saskatchewn ... Smiley, SK ... New Rockport, Montana 1969 ............ Cascade, Montana ... Fort Shaw (Cascade) MT ... Glacier, Montana 1969 ............ Glendale, Montana ... Cut Bank (Glacier) MT ... New Rockport, Alberta 1969 ............ Huron, Saskatchewan ... Brownlee, SK ... Big Bend Alberta 1970 ............ Kyle, Saskatchewan ... Kyle, SK ... Rosedale, Alberta 1970 ............ Roseglen, Alberta ... Hilda, AL ... Crystal Springs, Alberta 1970 ............ Rosetown, Saskatchewan ... Rosetown, SK ... Milford, Alberta 1971 ............ Abbey, Saskatchewan ... Abbey, SK ... Tompkins, Saskatchewan 1971 ............ Clearspring, Saskatchewan ... Keneston, SK ... Bench, Saskatchewan 1972 ............ Parkland, Alberta ... Parkland, AL ... Macillan, Alberta 1972 ............ Verdant Valley, Alberta ... Drumheller, AL ... Handhills, Alberta 1973 ............ Provost, Alberta ... Provost, AL ... O. K., Alberta 1973 ............ Messleigh, Alberta ... Messleigh, AL ... Newdale, Alberta 1973 ............ Grassy Lake, Alberta ... Grassy Lake, AL ... New Elm Spring, Alberta * Spelled as one word - "Sweetgrass" - by the AAA map of Montana. ** "Martindale" as spelled in Hutterite Society; the AAA map spells it Martinsdale. *** "White Sulphur" as spelled in Hutterite Society; AAA map spells it "White Suphur Springs". |