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    The Norwegian Settlers Memorial is the official memorial of the U.S. state of Illinois maintained in honor of immigrants from the nation of Norway. This...
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    the site of an early Norwegian-American settlement. Today it is the site of the State of Illinois Norwegian Settlers Memorial. Norway received its name from...
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    Cleng Peerson (category Norwegian emigrants to the United States)
    Machine (Richard L. Canuteson, Norwegian-American Historical Association. Volume 27: Page 243) Norwegian Settlers Memorial Archived 2009-03-27 at the Wayback...
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  • Fox River Settlement (category Norwegian-American culture in Illinois)
    it was 1834. The Norwegian Settlers Memorial, situated just south of the community of Norway, La Salle County, is the official memorial of Illinois maintained...
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    Illinois Division of Highways – via Illinois Digital Archives. Norwegian Settlers Memorial (Illinois Historic Preservation Agency) Archived 2009-03-27 at...
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    under Danish rule during the time that Norwegians participated in the Dano-Norwegian slave trade and the Dano-Norwegian colonization of the Caribbean. In 2013...
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    Norwegian Americans (Norwegian: Norskamerikanere) are Americans with ancestral roots in Norway. Norwegian immigrants went to the United States primarily...
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    with Norwegian settlers, most have abandoned the Norwegian language in the primary service. Two churches in the United States still use Norwegian as a...
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  • County Mount Pulaski Courthouse State Historic Site, Logan County Norwegian Settlers Memorial, LaSalle County Old Market House State Historic Site, Jo Daviess...
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    Our Savior's Lutheran Church (Cranfills Gap, Texas) (category Norwegian-American culture in Texas)
    Savior's Lutheran Church at Norse was organized on June 14, 1869 by Norwegian settlers of Bosque County, Texas. The church itself was constructed between...
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    provide for their families, but also attract new settlers to their small community. Many of the early settlers had fought in the Revolutionary War, including...
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    Zakarias Martin Toftezen (category Norwegian emigrants to the United States)
    Washington's First Norwegian Settlers (Memorial). Stanwood, Washington: Pioneer Historical Society of the Stillaguamish Valley, Sons of Norway. May 27, 1939...
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    settlements in Greenland were established after 986 by settlers coming from Iceland. The settlers, known as Grænlendingar ('Greenlanders' in Icelandic)...
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    seaworthiness and wanderlust resulted in new areas being developed. Norwegian settlers moved into the North Sea westward to Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland...
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    2022. Early Norwegians in Texas (Royal Norwegian Consulate General in Houston) [1] Norse, Texas (Handbook of Texas) Clifton, the Norwegian Capital of Texas...
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  • been purchased by the Crown and then sold to the settlers. As time passed, non-Indigenous settlers became eager to establish their own communities and...
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  • Norway Grove is an unincorporated community located in the town of Vienna in Dane County, Wisconsin. Dating from 1844, immigrant settlers principally...
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  • have a Wikipedia article showing they are Norwegian American or must have references showing they are Norwegian American and are notable. Burton Hatlen...
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    particular, that it is descended from the Norwegian or Siberian Forest cat, brought to New England by settlers or Vikings. Phylogenetic studies showed that...
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    Leif Erikson (category CS1 Norwegian-language sources (no))
    Sons of Norway. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2014. Norwegian-American Studies, Volumes 1–3. Norwegian-American...
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  • 1890 along the northern boundary of Rancho El Conejo. These settlers, known as the Norwegian Colony, needed a safe way to move bales of hay and sacks of...
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  • northern Norway in the Sápmi region that were once part of Denmark–Norway. The Dano-Norwegian government colonized Sámi land and encouraged settlers to move...
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    Ole Edvart Rølvaag (category Pages with Urban East Norwegian IPA)
    Ole Edvart Rølvaag (Urban East Norwegian: [ˈûːlə ˈɛ̀dːvɑʈ ˈrø̂ːlvoːɡ]; Rølvåg in modern Norwegian, Rolvaag in English orthography) (April 22, 1876 – November...
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    to Greenland and re-establish contact with the Norse settlers there. Presumably, such settlers would still be Catholic or even pagan and he desired to...
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    draw. The Norwegian population of York was part of the historic Norwegian Blue Mounds settlement, part of a contiguous settlement of Norwegians, connecting...
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  • original on January 15, 2013. Retrieved Jan 3, 2013. "Christ Church St. James Memorial Garden and Cemetery". "Discovering the Duchess Street Burial Ground – OGS...
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    and Norway from 1818 until his death in 1844 and the first monarch of the Bernadotte dynasty. In Norway, he is known as Charles III John (Norwegian: Karl...
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    Apatity (category CS1 Norwegian-language sources (no))
    ('Special settlers' in the Khibins: Special settlers and convicts in the history of the developments of the Khibins). The Khibiny Branch of the Memorial Society...
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    Scandinavian Scotland (category Norway–Scotland relations)
    the 8th to the 15th centuries during which Vikings and Norse settlers, mainly Norwegians and to a lesser extent other Scandinavians, and their descendants...
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    after the 2015 election, 10 of the 120 members of the Knesset (8%) were settlers. Parliamentary elections are scheduled every four years, but unstable coalitions...
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