Bon Homme Hutterite Colony

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{{Infobox settlement

| name = Bon Homme

| settlement_type = Hutterite Colony

| image_skyline = Bon Homme NHouse3-1.JPG

| imagesize = 275

| image_caption = Limestone House at Bon Homme Colony

| image_seal =

|pushpin_map = South Dakota#USA

|pushpin_label_position = top

|pushpin_label = Bon Homme

|pushpin_map_caption = Location within South Dakota

|pushpin_mapsize =

| coordinates = {{coord|42.863889|-97.706667|display=inline}}

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{Flag|USA}}

| subdivision_type1 = State

| subdivision_name1 = {{Flag|South Dakota}}

| established_title = Branch

| established_date = Schmiedeleut II

| established_title2 = Status

| established_date2 = Active

| established_title3 = Founded

| established_date3 = 1874

| seat_type = Mother colony

| seat = Hutterdorf, Ukraine

| parts_type = Daughter colonies

| parts_style = list

| parts =

| p1 = Maxwell Colony, SD

| p2 = Bon Homme Colony, MB

| p3 = Cedar Grove Colony, SD

| p4 = Platte Colony, SD

| p5 = Rockport Colony, SD

| p6 = Spink Colony, SD

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{{Infobox NRHP

| embed = yes

| nrhp_type = hd

| added = June 30, 1982

| area = {{convert|25|acre}}

| mpsub = [https://npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/64000795.pdf Historic Hutterite Colonies TR]

| refnum = 82003913{{NRISref|version=2013a}}

}}

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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.

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.

{{convert|25|acre}} of the site were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=82003913}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Bon Homme Hutterite Colony |publisher=National Park Service|author= |date= |accessdate=February 19, 2024}} With {{NRHP url|id=82003913|photos=y|title=accompanying pictures}}

Bon Homme Hutterite Colony in 2012 belonged to the more conservative Committee Hutterites, also called Schmiedeleut 2.[http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Bon_Homme_Hutterite_Colony_%28Tabor,_South_Dakota,_USA%29 Bon Homme Hutterite Colony (Tabor, South Dakota, USA) at Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online]