Editing Volga, South Dakota (section)

==History==
Volga was founded by the Western Town Lot Company on December 27, 1879, by Col. Arthur Jacoby, who had [[plat]]ted the area in September of that year. It was originally named "Bandy Town" after the Bandy family, early settlers there. In December 1879, the railroad assigned it the name "Volga", either after the [[Volga River]] in Russia, or the town (and river) of [[Volga, Iowa]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Volga Community Profile |url=http://www.volgacity.com/documents/volga_community_profile.pdf |website=www.volgacity.com |publisher=City of Volga, South Dakota |access-date=March 28, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140727114449/http://www.volgacity.com/documents/volga_community_profile.pdf |archive-date=July 27, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Anderson |first1=Gary |first2=Ken |last2=Stach |title=A Study of Brookings County, South Dakota |url=http://www.dakotapostalhistorysociety.org/2008-Jul-Vol-XXV-No3.pdf |magazine=Dakota Collector |publisher=Dakota Postal History Society |date=July 2008 |access-date=December 13, 2023 |volume=XXV |issue=3}}</ref><ref name="hsed"/>{{rp|141}} From November 1879 to May 1880, Volga was at the end of the railroad, which stimulated the settlement's growth.<ref name="hsed"/>{{rp|141}} By 1881, there were around 400 inhabitants.

<ref name="hsed">{{cite book|title=History of southeastern Dakota |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthea00siou/page/141/mode/1up?q=%22volga%22 |publisher=Sioux City, Ia., Western Publishing Company |date=1881 |access-date=December 12, 2023 |chapter=Volga}}</ref>{{rp|142}} By the next year, Volga had five [[general store]]s and two [[hardware store]]s, as well as two hotels and three [[lumber yard]]s.<ref name="jnv">{{cite book|last1=Vogel |first1=John N. |title=Great Lakes lumber on the Great Plains: the Laird, Norton Lumber Company in South Dakota |url=https://archive.org/details/greatlakeslumber0000voge/page/59/mode/1up?q=%22volga%22 |publisher=Iowa City: University of Iowa Press |isbn=978-0-87745-385-7 |date=1992 |access-date=December 12, 2023}}</ref>{{rp|59}} By sometime in the early 1880s, there were four hotels, chief of which was the Farrington.<ref name="hotel">{{cite news|last1=Cecil |first1=Chuck |title=Did a US president really stay in a Volga Hotel? |url=https://brookingsregister.com/article/did-a-us-president-really-stay-in-a-volga-hotel |access-date=December 15, 2023 |work=Brookings Register |date=March 8, 2023}}</ref> The lumber yard owned by the [[Laird, Norton Company Building|Laird, Norton Company]] was closed in 1884.<ref name="jnv"/>{{rp|81}}

Volga is mentioned in the 1940 novel ''[[The Long Winter (novel)|The Long Winter]]'' by [[Laura Ingalls Wilder]] in the chapter titled "Pa Goes to Volga".<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Blumberg |first=Lisa |date=April 1997 |title=Toward The Little House |url=https://www.americanheritage.com/toward-little-house |magazine=[[American Heritage (magazine)|American Heritage]] |access-date=December 15, 2023 |volume=48 |issue=2}}</ref>

In November 1994, it was decided that a soybean processing plant – expected to create 67 jobs – would be built in Volga.<ref name="cc"/>{{rp|271}} [[Groundbreaking]] took place in mid-1995. In September 1996, a $32.5 million soybean processing plant opened in Volga, the first such facility in South Dakota.<ref name="cc"/>{{rp|273}}<ref name="mr"/> Described as "a major agricultural hub in the Brookings area", it is able to process 85,000 [[bushel]]s daily. The facility is operated by South Dakota Soybean Processors, who have since also opened a soybean plant near [[Miller, South Dakota|Miller]], with plans for a plant in [[Mitchell, South Dakota|Mitchell]].<ref name="mr">{{cite news|title=When a soybean plant came to this South Dakota town, other businesses followed |url=https://www.mitchellrepublic.com/news/south-dakota/when-a-soybean-plant-came-to-this-south-dakota-town-other-businesses-followed |access-date=December 11, 2023 |website=www.mitchellrepublic.com |publisher=[[Mitchell Daily Republic]] |date=September 16, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Kronaizl |first1=Andrew |title=Soybean group moves ahead with proposed $500 million project south of Mitchell |url=https://listen.sdpb.org/business-economics/2022-07-26/soybean-group-moves-ahead-with-proposed-500-million-project-south-of-mitchell |website=www.listen.sdpb.org |publisher=[[South Dakota Public Broadcasting|SDPB]] |date=July 26, 2022 |access-date=December 11, 2023}}</ref> Prairie AquaTech, a [[fish feed]] company, built a facility to the south of the Volga plant in 2019.<ref name="mr"/>