Lehrerleut Colonies in North America 1973

Hutterite Place Names in North America
65 Lehrerleut Colonies 1973

The place names and country locations given below are from "List of Hutterite Colonies in North America" (pages 364-366, part of Appendix Fifteen) of the book "Hutterite Society" (first edition, 403 pages) by John A. Hostetler, published © copyright 1974 by Johns Hopkins University Press of Baltimore, Maryland; ISBN 0-8018-1584-3.

FEEFHS thanks Johns Hopkins University Press for its permission to republish this list of Hutterite colonies and thus make it more widely available to genealogy record searchers thru the FEEFHS Web Site.

FEEFHS also gives thanks to retired sociology and anthropology professor John A. Hostetler (formerly of Temple University in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) for his encouragement and help of our efforts to make Hutterite sources and information of value more widely accessable to genealogy record searchers worldwide.

Background The "65 Lehrerleut Colonies" list presented below represents the third of three sections of Appendix Fifteen "Hutterite Society" as of the last year reported by Hostetler in the first edition of his book.

At the time of Hostetler's first edition (1973-1974) he reported there were 229 Hutterite colonies in North America. He estimated they contained about 20,000 Hutterites. A 1996 Internet article estimates at least 400 colonies, while a separate estimate places an average of 90 members per colony for a total of betwen 36,000 and 40,000 Hutteries.

An unknown number of other Hutterites in North America left communal life to become "Prairieleuts". They will not be found in the records of these groups of colonies, nor is a Juliusleut group in Ontario, Canada where relationships with fourty persons of the Enz family were severed in the early 1950s.

Also a related "Society of Brothers" (SOB), a "Buderhof" splinter group founded in Germany in 1920 by Eberhard Arnold (1883-1935) that spent some time in Paraguay is not included in this lists. In 1974 there were the SOB communities of Woodcrest in Rifton, NY, Oak Lane (became New Meadow Run) in Farmington Pennsylvania, Evergreen in Norfolk, Connecticut and Darvell at Robertsbridge, Sussex, England.

In 1973-74 the SOB under the leadership of the Rifton New York colony is said to have 1,000 persons. In 1996 they are thought to have about 300 persons per colony and perhaps as many as 8 communities. However at present time they are not part of the original Hutterite group founded in 1528 and thus not part of these lists either.

"Lehrerleut Colonies" List as of 1973

This information was transcribed by the webmaster into a Works database and reformatted into a "user friendly" flat file database for the web. In doing so the Colony "town" address was augmented with the county for U. S. Colonies and the province or state location was added to the "Colony Name" and "Parent Colony" columns for clarity as some colonies of the same name exist in both Canada and the U.S. The Lehrerleut, lead by Jacob Wipf, a teacher, (lehrer in German) was formed as a colony after these members arrived in South Dakota 
Year Founded ... Colony Name ... Location: City (County) State/Province ... Parent Colony

(For prior periods, see Hutterite Society chapter "Life in Russia" [pages 91-118] for more detail.)
1877-1929 ... Old Elmspring, South Dakota ... Extinct (SD) ...From the Ukraine
1888-1934 ... Rockport, South Dakota ... Extinct (SD) ... Old Elmspring, South Dakota
1900-1918 ... New Elmspring, South Dakota ... Extinct (SD) ... Old Elmspring, South Dakota
1910-1918 ... Milford, South Dakota ... Extinct (SD) ... Old Elmspring, South Dakota
1918 ............ Milford, Alberta ... Raymond, AL ... Milford, South Dakota
1918 ............ New Elmspring, Alberta ... Magrath, AL ... New Elmspring, South Dakota
1918 ........... Old Elmspring, Alberta ... Magrath, AL ... Old Elmspring, South Dakota
1918 ............ Rockport, Alberta ... Magrath, AL ... Rockport, South Dakota
1920 ............ Big Bend, Alberta ... Cardston, AL ... New Elmspring, Alberta
1924 ............ Miami, Alberta ... New Dayton, AL ... Milford, Alberta
1929 ............ Elmspring, Alberta ... Warner, AL ... Old Elmspring, South Dakota
1932 ............ Hutterville, Alberta ... Magrath, AL ... Rockport, Alberta
1932 ............ New Rockport, Alberta ... New Dayton, AL ...Rockport, Alberta
1934 ............ O. K. Colony, Alberta ... Raymond, AL ... Rockport, South Dakota
1935 ............ Rock Lake, Alberta ... Wrentham, AL ... Old Elmspring, Alberta
1935 ............ Sunnyside, Alberta ... Warner, AL ... Elmspring, Alberta
1937 ............ Crystal Springs, Alberta ... Magrath, AL ... New Elmspring, Alberta
1937 ............ McMillan, Alberta ... Cayley, AL ... Big Bend, Alberta
1945 ............ Milford, Montana ... Augusta (Lewis) MT ... Milford, Alberta
1947 ............ Birch Creek, Montana ... Valier (Toole) MT ... New Elmspring, Alberta
1948 ............ Miami, Montana ... Pendroy (Teton) MT ... Miami, Alberta
1948 ............ New Rockport, Montana ... Choteau (Teton) MT ... New Rockport, Alberta
1948 ............ Rockport, Montana ... Pendroy (Teton) MT ... Rockport, Alberta
1949 ............ Bench, Saskatchewan ... Shaunavon, SK ... Old Elmspring, Alberta
1949 ............ Miller, Montana ... Choteau (Teton) MT ... O. K. Colony, Alberta
1950 ............ Glacier, Montana ... Cut Bank (Glacier) MT ... Elmspring, Alberta
1950 ............ Hillside, Montana ... Sweet Grass* (Toole) MT ... Sunnyside, Alberta
1950 ............ Newdale, Alberta ... Milo, AL ... Rock Lake, Alberta
1951 ............ Winnifred, Alberta ... Medicine Hat, AL ... Milford, Alberta
1952 ............ Acadia, Alberta ... Oyen, AL ... Crystal Springs, Alberta
1952 ............ Cypress, Saskatchewan ... Maple Creek, SK ... Big Bend, Alberta
1952 ............ Tompkins, Saskatchewan ... Tompkins, SK ... New Elmspring, Alberta
1953 ............ Rosedale, Alberta ... Etzikom, AL ... Hutterville, Alberta
1955 ............ Springside, Alberta ... Duchess, AL ... New Rockport, Alberta
1956 ............ Handhills, Alberta ... Hanna, AL ... McMillan, Alberta
1959 ............ Martindale, Montana ... Martindale** (Meagher) MT ... Miami, Montana
1960 ............ Springdale, Montana ... White Sulphur*** (Meagher) MT ... Milford, Montana
1961 ............ Sage Creek, Montana ... Chester (Liberty) MT ... Miller, Montana
1962 ............ Duncan Ranch, Montana ... Harlowton (Wheatland) MT ... Birch Creek, Montana
1962 ............ Newell, Alberta ... Bassano, AL ... O. K., Alberta
1963 ............ Glidden, Saskatchewan ... Glidden, SK ... Miami, Alberta
1963 ............ Main Centre, Saskatchewan ... Rush Lake, SK ... Rockport, Alberta
1963 ............ Hilldale, Montana ... Havre (Hill) MT ... Rockport, Montana
1963 ............ Rimrock, Montana ... Sunburst (Toole) MT ... Hillside, Montana
1963 ............ Waldeck, Saskatchewan ... Swift Current, SK ... Elmspring, Alberta
1964 ............ Bow City, Alberta ... Brooks, AL ... Elmspring, Alberta
1965 ............ Castor, Alberta ... Castor, AL ... Hutterville, Alberta
1965 ............ South Bend, Alberta ... Alliance, AL ... Winnifred, Alberta
1967 ............ Haven, Saskatchewan ... Fox Valley, SK ... Acadia, Alberta
1968 ............ Baildon, Saskachewan ... Moose Jaw, SK ... Springside, Alberta
1968 ............ Brandt, Alberta ... Brant, AL ... Rock Lake, Alberta
1968 ............ Smiley, Saskatchewn ... Smiley, SK ... New Rockport, Montana
1969 ............ Cascade, Montana ... Fort Shaw (Cascade) MT ... Glacier, Montana
1969 ............ Glendale, Montana ... Cut Bank (Glacier) MT ... New Rockport, Alberta
1969 ............ Huron, Saskatchewan ... Brownlee, SK ... Big Bend Alberta
1970 ............ Kyle, Saskatchewan ... Kyle, SK ... Rosedale, Alberta
1970 ............ Roseglen, Alberta ... Hilda, AL ... Crystal Springs, Alberta
1970 ............ Rosetown, Saskatchewan ... Rosetown, SK ... Milford, Alberta
1971 ............ Abbey, Saskatchewan ... Abbey, SK ... Tompkins, Saskatchewan
1971 ............ Clearspring, Saskatchewan ... Keneston, SK ... Bench, Saskatchewan
1972 ............ Parkland, Alberta ... Parkland, AL ... Macillan, Alberta
1972 ............ Verdant Valley, Alberta ... Drumheller, AL ... Handhills, Alberta
1973 ............ Provost, Alberta ... Provost, AL ... O. K., Alberta
1973 ............ Messleigh, Alberta ... Messleigh, AL ... Newdale, Alberta
1973 ............ Grassy Lake, Alberta ... Grassy Lake, AL ... New Elm Spring, Alberta

* Spelled as one word - "Sweetgrass" - by the AAA map of Montana.
** "Martindale" as spelled in Hutterite Society; the AAA map spells it Martinsdale.
*** "White Sulphur" as spelled in Hutterite Society; AAA map spells it "White Suphur Springs".