Tacoma

HISTORY

In the early 1900s colonists from BeideckDreispitzFrankHussenbachKolbNeu-DönhofShcherbakovkaWalterWarenburg and Unterdorf settled in Tacoma.

The Volga German neighborhood was generally found between South 19th & 23rd and Ainsworth & Sheridan.

 

VOLGA GERMAN CONGREGATIONS

Emmanuel Lutheran Church
Emmanuel Evangelical & Reformed Church
Evangelical Congregational Church
First United Church of Christ
Peace Lutheran Church
Trinity Lutheran Church
Zion Lutheran Church

 

VOLGA GERMAN FAMILIES

The following Volga German families are known to have settled in Tacoma:

Juckert from Kolb
Koch from Kolb
Müller from Kolb

Sources

Fiftieth Anniversary, 1909-1959 (Peace Lutheran Church) - booklet. 

Scheuerman, Richard D. & Clifford E. Trafzer. The Volga Germans: Pioneers of the Northwest (Moscow, ID: University of Idaho Press, 1985): 174.