construction projects
Manufacturing Plant at a Hutterite Colony
A news report from Montana last week examines how well a new manufacturing venture at the Golden Valley Hutterite Colony in Ryegate, Montana, is doing. Golden Valley started fabricating steel roofs and steel siding for the new buildings construction industry a year ago. The news story last week indicates that the new firm, Valley Steel, […]
Hutterites Use the Latest Technology—Sometimes
A Montana Hutterite colony has plowed under a field of lentils and erected instead a facility for manufacturing the steel roofs and siding materials used in building construction. A report in the Billings Gazette last week explained what the colony is doing. The new venture, called Valley Steel LLC, is located at the Golden Valley […]
Constructive Spirit in an Arkansas Amish Community
With a typical can-do attitude, some Amish families in Sturkie, Arkansas, decided to erect a new bridge to overcome the fact that their small community was divided by the South Fork River. Moses Borntrager, on whose land the proposed construction was to take place, learned that an old steel bridge had been replaced by a […]
New Hutterite Colony Stirs Opposition
A South Dakota Hutterite colony is planning to split in half and establish another one in North Dakota, but as sometimes happens, there has been opposition in the rural area where they plan to build the new one. The Bohnsack Township Board, in Traill County, ND, held a hearing about the application by the Millbrook […]
