Groninger Hoek in the years after the Civil War. Noting particularly the diverse beginnings and then the emergence of the With "outsiders," culturally and religiously they lived their livesįrom the cradle to the grave within the cocoon of their families, churches,Ĭhristian schools, social organizations, and Dutch shopkeepers and But while they shared their neighborhoods and rubbed elbows on the job Interspersed among other immigrant peoples. Holland and Roseland colonies, lived as a small minority Pithy statement reminds us that the westsiders, unlike the South Home, worked hard, and harbored intense loyalties for their DutchĬhurches." In Vanden Bosch's mixed metaphor, the colonyĪt the time was a "handful of Hollanders in a sea of Jews." This That it was a "tightly-knit colony of Netherlanders who spoke Dutch at Henry Stob, who grew up in the Groninger Hoek in the twenties, recalls ![]() Homogeneous, religiously orthodox, and economically prosperous community that Included Calvinists, Catholics, Lutherans, Unitarians, liberal Socialists,įrom such unpromising beginnings, the West Side Reformed immigrants evolved into a socially The city Dutch were a polyglot populationįrom all strata of Dutch society and from all parts of the Netherlands. (Bilt) and his son Hiram somewhat played that role on the West "Meester" Pieter De Jong in Roseland, although Lucas Van Der Belt It even lacked a dominant lay leader such as Willem Coenraad Wust, who led the group to South Holland. The group migration of a dominie and his congregation, such as the Reverend ![]() ![]() The West Side settlement did not begin with Yet, as Amry Vanden Bosch stated in his book, The DutchĪlmost every respect the most interesting of them all." The South HollandĪnd Roseland colonies are well known, but not the Groninger Hoek, which wasĬalled after 1920 the "Old West Side." Of the city that became the Groninger Hoek (corner) after 1865. Settlement was on the West Side in the heart Three Dutch colonies began in the Chicago area in theįamilies from the province of Zuid Holland developed the farming colony of South Holland 20 miles south of the city (see FigureĪnother farming colony in Roseland about 8 miles closer in, but still 20 miles
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