About Maxwell Colony, South Dakota

Maxwell Colony is a Hutterite community in Hutchinson County, founded in 1900 by families who came from the Bon Homme Bruderhof. It lies along the James River's southwest bank in the south of the county, 6 miles by road from Olivet, the county seat, to the northwest and the same distance from Scotland to the southwest.

  • Seventeen families in 1900Joseph Wipf brought 17 families from the Bon Homme Bruderhof and settled them here in 1900. Their new home near Scotland became the Maxwell Hutterite Bruderhof.
  • A preacher from Bon HommeWipf had been chosen as a preacher at the Bon Homme Bruderhof in 1891. Nine years later he led the families who left Bon Homme and founded Maxwell.
  • 254 people in 2020The Census Bureau first listed Maxwell Colony as a census-designated place shortly before the 2020 census. That count found 254 people living in the colony.

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