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Holland, Indiana proudly takes its place among Dubois County, Indiana’s German heritage tradition. Settled by German immigrants during the late 1830s, two differing groups developed the area. The first, made up primarily of peoples from Ladbergen, Kreis Tecklenburg, Prussia, homesteaded in what today is northern Cass Township and Southern Patoka Township. By 1850 over 200 individuals from Ladbergen and surrounding towns called southwest Dubois County home. By the end of that decade a second wave of German-Americans moved in to the southern part of the township. This group originally came from/near Osnabruck, Kingdom of Hanover and settled for a time in southern Ohio before moving west. While there were citizens from American states and other European countries, those speaking what locals referred to as Ladbergendish and Osnabruckish composed the majority of individuals when Henry Kunz decided to plat a town in 1859.