“The Justus Bissing, Frederick Karlin, and Frederick Koerner families stayed on this site from March 1 till April 8 of 1876, while they were building their sod dugouts in nearby Katherinenstadt (Catherine). These people were the first of nearly a thousand German-speaking Catholics who migrated to Ellis County from the Volga River area of Russia during the late 1870’s. Other Volga-German villages formed were Herzog, now Victoria (1876), Obermonjou, which became Munjor (1876), Pfeifer (1876), and Schoenchen (1877), as well as Liebenthal in neighboring Rush County (1876). The Trinity Lutheran Church stood on this corner from 1879 till 1965, when St. Joseph’s Catholic Parish bought the church building and put it to use as an axillary chapel.
Hays City, Kansas”
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