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-Large numbers of Dutch farmers pushed from Holland by low wages and high taxes immigrated to America in the early nineteenth century.
+Large numbers of Dutch farmers and craftsman searching for reglious freedom left Holland for the lush land in centeral Iowa. Pella and Orange city were settled in the mid 1800's. <ref>[http://www.iptv.org/iowapathways/myPath.cfm?ounid=ob_000205 Iowa Pathways ''The Dutch''] </ref>
 ====Amish and Mennonite ====