They were mainly farmers and Lutherans. In Burlington the Swedes live on West Hill with dwellings set in the midst of neat and welllandscaped grounds. Many of them still eat lutefiskdried stockfishimported from Sweden from November to March. In Des Moines the Swedish area is in the east of the city. The remainder of the immigrant groups. although locally important. never came up to those above mentioned in numbers and general influence on the culture and manners of the people. However. it might be well to mention something about their coming and localization. The Czechs. or Bohemians. settled in Spillville.
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