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Pella origins and the Dutch City of Refuge saga
Extracts recount the 1847 departure from Holland led by Henry Scholte for Iowa and Michigan, the choice of a site near Fairfield and Marion county, the founding of Pella as a City of Refuge, and the 1848 platting of the town amid Dutch frugality and farming prosperity. Also notes local obituaries and minor town items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptists
Pella
P. H. Bousquet
Iowa
City of Refuge
Henry P. Scholte
Prrsic
Holland
Church of Holland
Netherland Reformed Church
Iit
Atlantic
Scholte
Reus
van Raalte
Vermeulen
Zoone
Michigan
Louis XIV
France
Mr. Scholte
Mississippi River
St. Louis
Fairfield
J. M. Post
Marion County
Jordan
Gennessereth
Jerusalem