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Home > Family History > My Mother's Ancestors > More photos of Webster, South Dakota

 

 

More Photos of the Webster,

South Dakota Area

 

 

 

This page isn't finished yet -- I'm still working on it.  These are more photos of the Webster, South Dakota area, where my great-great-grandparents, Ole and Birgit Svang, homesteaded a quarter-section of land back in the late 1800s.  I've also included a map of their homestead and of the Bergen Church.

 

Bristol was the town closest to Ole's homestead.  Interestingly, it's also the home town of NBC announcer Tom Brokaw, who was born in 1940.  Tom spent his first few years in Bristol, then he and his folks moved to Webster.

 

Pierpont is a small farming town where Ole Svang lived in the early 1900s after he lost his homestead through foreclosure.

 

The Bergen Church was where Ole's son (my great-grandfather) Nels Svang married Anna Abrahamson in the 1890s.

 

I've posted this page primarily for relatives of Ole and Birgit who have never been to the Webster area, to give them a better idea of what the area is like.

 

 

 

 

 

Webster, South Dakota

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 1-6299_Old_Cornerstone.jpg (122448 bytes)    1-6301_Webster.jpg (84108 bytes)   1-6302_Webster_Water_Tower.jpg (85592 bytes)

 

Bristol, South Dakota

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1-6040_Bristol_Sign.jpg (114315 bytes)

 

 

Pierpont, South Dakota

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Bergen Church:  Outside

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1-6201_Bergen_Church.jpg (87512 bytes)    1-6205_Bergen_Church.jpg (79421 bytes)    1-6088_Bergen_Church.jpg (71450 bytes)

 

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1-6086_Bergen_Church_Built_in_1892.jpg (107688 bytes)    1-6231_Bergen_Cemetery.jpg (136063 bytes)

 

1-6089_Ole_and_Birgets_Gravestone_Bergen_Cemetery.jpg (119810 bytes)    1-6106_Bergen_Cemetery.jpg (125647 bytes)    1-6208_Svang_Gravestone.jpg (118533 bytes)

 

1-6095_Svang_Gravestone.jpg (96536 bytes)    1-6100_Norwegian_Inscription.jpg (119345 bytes)    1-6207_Birgit_Svang_Gravestone.jpg (78966 bytes)

 

1-6209_Ole_Inscription.jpg (93041 bytes)   

 

 

Bergen Church:  Inside

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1-6220_Downstairs_Bergen_Church.jpg (93509 bytes)    1-6214_Bergen_Plate_Downstairs.jpg (88942 bytes)

 

 

Ole and Birgit Svang's Homestead

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1-6160_Truck_at_Homestead.jpg (86809 bytes)    1-6172_Ole_Svangs_Road.jpg (81862 bytes)    1-6179_Oles_Land.jpg (87482 bytes)

 

1-6178_Lynn_Lake.jpg (68868 bytes)    1-6183_Me_on_Oles_Land.jpg (80565 bytes)