| Bon Homme | |||||||||||
| Settlement Type: | Hutterite Colony | ||||||||||
| Pushpin Map: | South Dakota#USA | ||||||||||
| Pushpin Label Position: | top | ||||||||||
| Pushpin Label: | Bon Homme | ||||||||||
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within South Dakota | ||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 42.8639°N -97.7067°W | ||||||||||
| Subdivision Type: | Country | ||||||||||
| Subdivision Type1: | State | ||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||
| 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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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.
of the site were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]
Bon Homme Hutterite Colony in 2012 belonged to the more conservative Committee Hutterites, also called Schmiedeleut 2.[2]