Alexander I decided to re-populate the region, in 1822 inviting Swiss settlers of Vaud to cultivate the vineyards of Shabo.
It was named for Conrad Sulzer, a 19th-century Swiss settler in what was then Lakeview Township.
The Festa is an annual event to celebrate the history, culture and lifestyle legacy to Hepburn Springs of its Swiss and Italian settlers.
Bellinzona was operated by the Zelman'a, prominent Swiss Italian settlers.
Like the original Swiss settlers on the rich Mississippi River bottom land at the turn of the century, residents of Valmeyer are homesteaders in a strange new land.
A colony at New Bern was composed of Swiss and German settlers.
A cluster of German and Swiss settlers also moved to the region from the southeastern settlement of New Bern, North Carolina.
The Swiss settlers were from the canton of Ticino and in the southern part of Graubünden.
Winemaking in Arkansas began in the 1870s with German and Swiss settlers who found the climate of northwest Arkansas favorable to growing grapes.
Swiss settlers in America continued to turn out the same type of large cupboards, glazed pottery and illuminated birth certificates that their ancestors did.