MADE GOOD IN U.S.A.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20280, 14 April 1934, Page 31 (Supplement)

MADE GOOD IN U.S.A.

Swedish Pioneers Who Built Five Towns. An interesting account is published in the Stockholm newspaper “ Svenska Dagbladet ” of the beginning and pre-sent-day conditions of New Sweden and four more all-Swedish communities in the State of Maine, U.SA. It ’was an 1870 that, under the leadership of an American minister, fifty-one colonists left their homes in Sweden to found a new settlement in America. Three of them are still living to-day in the prosperous township of New Sweden, which they have seen grow UPThe party, consisting of men, wo men and children sailed to Canada, «sn*i, from there made their way by boat and rail and road to the area in the woods of Maine which had been placed as land at their disposal by the Un ted States authorities. The last eight tnije-j of their long journey was made through trackless forest. In the years since the first settlenuuit the little colony has sent out shoots, and there are now in the region five townships, each with its name recalling old Sweden, and each almost entirely inhabited by people of Swedish descent. Here in the heart of Maine are now these typical Swedish communities with containing only Swedish names, with Swedish cooking in every household handed down from , mother to daughter, and with Swedish home-craft practised in the homes.