Bon Homme Hutterite Colony

Bon Homme Hutterite Colony, located in Bon Homme County, South Dakota, is the mother colony of all Schmiedeleut Hutterite Colonies in North America and also the oldest Hutterite Colony in the world still in existence.

Bon Homme
Hutterite Colony
Limestone House at Bon Homme Colony
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Coordinates: 42.863889°N 97.706667°W / 42.863889; -97.706667
Country	USA
State	South Dakota
Branch	Schmiedeleut II
Status	Active
Founded	1874
Mother colony	Hutterdorf, Ukraine
Daughter colonies	List Maxwell Colony, SD Bon Homme Colony, MB Cedar Grove Colony, SD Platte Colony, SD Rockport Colony, SD Spink Colony, SD
Bon Homme Hutterite Colony
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Area	25 acres (10 ha)
MPS	Historic Hutterite Colonies TR
NRHP reference No.	82003913[1]
Added to NRHP	June 30, 1982

It was founded in 1874 by Hutterite immigrants from what is today Ukraine under the leadership of Michael Waldner (1834–1889), who reestablished communal living among the Hutterites in Hutterdorf, Ukraine, in 1859. It was the only Hutterite Colony that did not relocate to Canada after World War I.

25 acres (10 ha) of the site were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[2]

Bon Homme Hutterite Colony in 2012 belonged to the more conservative Committee Hutterites, also called Schmiedeleut 2.^[3]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Bon Homme County, South Dakota
• Bon Homme Colony, South Dakota, census-designated place covering the colony