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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Sparkman, Jan |
| Title, Analytic | Bernstadt: The Last Swiss Colony |
| Journal Title | Swiss American Historical Society Review |
| Date of Publication | Nov. 2022 |
| Volume ID | 58 |
| Issue ID | 3 |
| Location in Work | 34-66, ill. |
| Contents | The Kentucky Bureau of Immigration's Role --- Venture Capital --- Leaving Switzerland --- First Impressions of Life in a New Land --- Building Homes --- Planting Crops --- Industry and Occupations --- Trouble [Financial] --- Social Life --- Education --- Religious Life --- Swiss Integration into the Laurel County Community --- Swiss in Other Laurel County Locations --- Bernstadt Today --- Swiss Descendants Club |
| Abstract | "The final attempt by Swiss immigrants to develop an independent colony in the United States was made in Laurel County, Kentucky, in 1881. This settlement was the result of efforts on the part of Kentucky's newly-formed Bureau of Immigration to compensate for the fact that the state had been all but ignored by European immigrants in the past." |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Swiss Americans -- Kentucky/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ Kentucky -- Laurel County/ Bernstadt (Kentucky) |