BELLFLOWER
BEGAN as a DUTCH-AMERICAN SETTLEMENT,
w/
LOTS OF DAIRY FARMS OWNED BY
IMMIGRANTS from
the NETHERLANDS but you won't find any farms or windmills or large tulip patches here today



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Sunday, May 31, 2015

IS BELLFLOWER CALIFORNIA's GRAND RAPIDS? "Grand Rapids readies a royal welcome for Dutch monarch"

Is bellflower the most Dutch-american city in California? (Or Chino-Ontario? Modesto? Ripon?) Maybe bellflower was in the 30's when my grandfather founded Valley Christian,but I wonder if it still is?

"..
After their arrival at Gerald R. Ford International
Airport, the Dutch royals — including Princesses
Ariane, 8, Alexia, 9, and Catharina-Amalia, 11 — will
be serenaded, in Dutch, by a children's choir from
Ada Christian School. The family will visit the Helen
DeVos Children's Hospital and Van Andel Research
Institute — named for Grand Rapids' Dutch-American
royalty, the founding families of Amway...."

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/metro-state/2015/05/28/dutch-royals/28122869/