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Sons of Jacob Cemetery | |
  Location within North Dakota  Location within the United States | |
| Location | 88th Ave. NE, 0.25 miles (0.40 km) north of 67th St. NE, vicinity of Garske in Ramsey County, North Dakota |
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| Coordinates | 48°23′21″N 98°45′28″W / 48.3890377°N 98.7577416°W |
| NRHP reference No. | 100001035[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 5, 2017 |
The Sons of Jacob Cemetery in rural Ramsey County, North Dakota was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. It was the cemetery of the Garske Colony, a farming community of Jewish immigrant homesteaders which was founded in 1883 and operated until about 1925.[2]
Jewish homesteaders came from Russia, where they were not allowed to own land, and tried to survive in harsh conditions in North Dakota. Many built sod houses or tarpaper shacks to live in while attempting to prove their land claims for 160 acres (0.65 km2) under the Homestead Act.
There once were nine rural Jewish cemeteries in North Dakota. The cemetery of the largest Jewish farming community in the state, the Ashley Jewish Homesteaders Cemetery, was listed on the National Register in May 2015. The Garske one, the Ashley one, and one in Regan are the only three that are "not entirely overgrown" by 2017.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ "National Register of Historic Places Program: Weekly List" (PDF). National Park Service. June 9, 2017.
- ↑ Garske Colony
- ↑ Carolyn Grueskin (June 21, 2017). "Jewish homesteader cemetery added to national register". Bismarck Tribune.
External links
[edit]- Sons of Jacob Cemetery at Find a Grave
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sons Of Jacob Cemetery
- National Register of Historic Places in Ramsey County, North Dakota
- Jewish cemeteries in North Dakota
- Russian-Jewish culture in the United States
- Russian-American culture in North Dakota
- Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in North Dakota
- Rural Jewish culture
- Homesteading in North Dakota
- North Dakota Registered Historic Places stubs