November 14, 2016

Historic South Texas church founded by Swedes 100 years ago

LYFORD, Texas (AP) - One hundred years ago in a farming village named Stockholm, a group of Swedish settlers gathered to start a church.

Just four years earlier, in 1912, the immigrants began settling in the brush-covered region of Willacy County, lured by companies using Swedish newspapers to hawk low ...

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