Bon Homme Hutterite Colony, located in Bon Homme County, South Dakota, is the mother colony of all Schmiedeleut Hutterite Colonies in North America and also the oldest Hutterite Colony in the world still in existence.
Bon Homme | |
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 Limestone House at Bon Homme Colony | |
  Bon Homme Location within South Dakota  Bon Homme Bon Homme (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 42°51′50″N 97°42′24″W / 42.863889°N 97.706667°W | |
| Country |  USA |
| State |  South Dakota |
| Branch | Schmiedeleut II |
| Status | Active |
| Founded | 1874 |
| Mother colony | Hutterdorf, Ukraine |
| Daughter colonies | List
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Bon Homme Hutterite Colony | |
| Area | 25 acres (10 ha) |
| MPS | Historic Hutterite Colonies TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 82003913[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 30, 1982 |
It was founded in 1874 by Hutterite immigrants from what is today Ukraine under the leadership of Michael Waldner (1834–1889), who reestablished communal living among the Hutterites in Hutterdorf, Ukraine, in 1859. It was the only Hutterite Colony that did not relocate to Canada after World War I.
25 acres (10 ha) of the site were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[2]
Bon Homme Hutterite Colony in 2012 belonged to the more conservative Committee Hutterites, also called Schmiedeleut 2.[3]
See also
edit- National Register of Historic Places listings in Bon Homme County, South Dakota
- Bon Homme Colony, South Dakota, census-designated place covering the colony
References
edit- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Bon Homme Hutterite Colony". National Park Service. Retrieved February 19, 2024. With accompanying pictures
- ^ Bon Homme Hutterite Colony (Tabor, South Dakota, USA) at Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online