San Juan Colony (Guanajuato, Mexico)
San Juan Colony, near the city of Irapuato, Mexico, a short-lived (1924-25) colonization effort by a group of Mennonite refugees from Russia, sponsored by H. P. Krehbiel and other Mennonites of Kansas, as a well-intended but nevertheless a rival colony to the Rosario Colony.
See also Irapuato and Mennonite Colonization Board.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 414. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.
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