Rolfe Amish Mennonite Settlement (Pocahontas County, Iowa, USA)
Rolfe (Iowa) Amish Mennonite settlement, now extinct, was established in Pocahontas County in 1897-98, when families from Illinois and Minnesota located near the town of Rolfe. Among the family names were Good, Zimmerman, Miller, Horsch, and Shantz. Sunday school was held regularly in a schoolhouse on Joseph Good's farm, 3½ miles northwest of Gilmore City, but there was never an organized church, although ministers from Henry County, Iowa, preached there occasionally. The first family left the community in 1902 and the last one perhaps thirty years later.
Bibliography
Gingerich, Melvin. Mennonites in Iowa. Iowa City, 1939: 336-37.
| Author(s) | Melvin Gingerich |
|---|---|
| Date Published | 1959 |
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