Map of the town of Balzer located in Russia. RG2824.PH000018-000002

ID: 101 ~ Source: RG2824 Williams, Thomas Frederick Arthur, 1871-1969, Nebraska State Historical Society ~ Date: 1894
This file appears in: The German Russians Come to Sutton
Map of the town of Balzer located in Russia. RG2824.PH000018-000002
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Map of the German Russian town of Balzer located in Russia. Inscription on map is in German with the only recognizable part saying "Sutton Nebraska...1894".

This file appears in: The German Russians Come to Sutton

By The Explore Nebraska History team
Twenty-two German families from the Russian villages of Worms and Rohrbach arrived in Sutton in September 1873, the first of many German Russians to settle in Nebraska. The immigrants were descendents of ethnic Germans who began colonizing the Volga…