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TWHS Scholarship Application is Open

The 2025-2026 Texas Wendish Heritage Society Scholarship application is now open! Before filling out the application form, students are strongly encouraged to read the scholarship guidelines. All parts of the application must be submitted by Monday, June 30, 2025, at 5pm CT. Scholarship Application Form: Click here. Application...

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Who Are the Wends?

In December of 1854, an English sailing vessel, the Ben Nevis, docked in Galveston harbor loaded with some 500 immigrants from Lusatia, an area in Germany comprising parts of Saxony and Prussia. These immigrants were not the typical lot of Germans, Swedes, Czechs, and Poles who flocked to...