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2. Colony Brands - Wikipedia

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   Colony Brands, Inc. (formerly, The Swiss Colony, Inc.) is a mail-order and electronic retail company known for its cheese, sausage, chocolate, fruitcakes, and other food products. The company also features extensive offerings in furniture, home decor, apparel, entertainment products, and electronics.

3. Nueva Helvecia - Wikipedia

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   The Swiss colony was given autonomy, and the first democratic secret vote in Uruguay happened in Colonia Suiza. The Swiss immigrants helped shape many Uruguayan laws, giving Uruguay the name of "Switzerland of the Americas", among many other contributions such as the classical production of Swiss cheese, also known as "Queso Colonia".

4. Colonia Suiza - Wikipedia

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   Colonia Suiza (In English, Swiss Colony) is a town in the municipality of San Carlos de Bariloche, in the Bariloche Department, Río Negro, Argentina. It is located about 25 km from the city of San Carlos de Bariloche at the foot of Cerro López.

5. Montgomery Ward - Wikipedia

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   Swiss Colony—which changed its name to Colony Brands Inc. June 1, 2010—kept Montgomery Ward alive and relaunched the Wards website September 10, 2008, with new catalogs mailing in February 2009. [25] A month before the catalog's launch, Swiss Colony President John Baumann told United Press International the retailer might also resurrect the ...

6. Italian Swiss Colony - Wikipedia

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   Italian Swiss Colony was a 19th and 20th-century American wine company and brand. Based in Asti , Sonoma County, California , Italian Swiss Colony was at one time the leading wine producer in California.

7. New Helvetia - Wikipedia

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   The Swiss pioneer John Sutter (1803–1880) arrived in Alta California with other Euro-American settlers in August 1839. He established an agricultural and trading colony, with the stockade Sutter's Fort, and named it "Nueva Helvetia." It was located near the confluence of the Sacramento River and American River.

8. Swiss Americans - Wikipedia

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   Grundy County Swiss Historical Society, a historical society in Grundy County, Tennessee, site of former Swiss colony of Gruetli. [14] Highland Historical Society, a historical society centered in Highland, Illinois, site of one of the oldest Swiss settlements in the United States. It was founded in 1831 by Swiss pioneers from Sursee, Switzerland.

9. Gruetli-Laager, Tennessee - Wikipedia

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   Gruetli was founded by German-speaking Swiss immigrants in 1869. The town was part of a greater initiative— conducted by an organization known as the Tennessee Kolonisation Gesellschaft— to establish Swiss colonies atop the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. [8] Gruetli was probably named after a commune in the Swiss canton of Glarus. [9]