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===Mennonites and Hutterites=== Hutchinson County is the most heavily [[Mennonite]]-populated county of South Dakota. [[German language|German-speaking]] [[Russian Mennonites|Mennonites from Russia]] settled in the county beginning in 1874 until the early 1880s.<ref>{{cite web|last=Unruh|first=J. D.|title=Hutchinson County (South Dakota, USA)|website=Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online|date=1956|access-date=July 30, 2015|url=http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Hutchinson_County_(South_Dakota,_USA) }}</ref> South Dakota has the nation's largest population of [[Hutterites]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Color them plain but successful|publisher=The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis|access-date=December 14, 2008|url=http://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications_papers/pub_display.cfm?id=1409}}</ref> a communal [[Anabaptist]] group that emigrated also from Russia during the same period as the Mennonites, with whom they share the [[Anabaptist]] faith. Hutterites live in communities each of about 150 people. [[Wolf Creek Colony, South Dakota|Wolf Creek Colony]] is in Hutchinson County, where the Wolf meets the [[James River (Dakotas)|James River]]. This colony is west of Freeman and north of Olivet and Menno.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/25/us/wolf-creek-journal-idealists-with-a-knack-for-being-prosperous.html|title=Wolf Creek Journal; Idealists With a Knack For Being Prosperous|date=November 25, 1987|access-date=June 20, 2015|first=Dirk|last=Johnson|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> Other Hutterite communities in the county are [[Maxwell Colony, South Dakota|Maxwell Colony]], [[New Elm Spring Colony, South Dakota|New Elm Spring Colony]], [[Old Elm Spring Colony, South Dakota|Old Elm Spring Colony]], and [[Tschetter Colony, South Dakota|Tschetter Colony]].
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