While editing the latest batch of colony data, I ran across a couple of really nice examples of how farmsteads must've looked back when our ancestors lived in Russia...because they
still look like it today.
For a refresher of how German colonies were laid out, see a previous post from November last year on the
Layout of German Dorfs in Russia. Take a look at the drawings for the farmyards and then take a look at of the photos below.
These are Mennonite colonies the Orenburg oblast (map coming soon).
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