Here's a fun website to visit, which is all about my mother's (and Lawrence Welk's) hometown. As stated on the "church" page of the website, the town's history began when, "In the fall of 1888 men out of Strasburg, South Russia came to this part of Emmons County in search of suitable land for farming. The first settlers, Jacob Feist, Jacob Baumgartner, Johannes Baumgartner, Franz Baumgartner (brothers), Kasper Feist, Joseph Burgad, and Albinus Schneider arrived in the spring of 1889."
Jacob Feist is my great-grandfather.
Warning: polka music plays on the home page! (with animation, too!) Make sure your volume is on.
As my dad says, "There's no such thing as an unhappy polka."
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