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The Planting Of New Bilten, Duane H. Freitag, Robert A. Elmer
The Planting Of New Bilten, Duane H. Freitag, Robert A. Elmer
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Almost forgotten now, the farming region of New Bilten in Wisconsin's Green County was once a pivotal part of the Swiss immigrant community there and deeply intertwined in the founding of the state's renowned cheese-making industry. The region is centered in a valley south of New Glarus once known as the Biltental (Bilten valley), where more than a dozen families from the Canton Glarus village of the same name settled as a group in July of 1847.