In the process of language shift, a heritage language ceases to fulfill a communicative function in the heritage language community. The language's role, however, can take on a different function as a postvernacular. In the postvernacular stage, the heritage language exists symbolically for the community. This article explores the postvernacular stage of Heritage Dutch in Wisconsin's Fox River Valley. Several waves of Dutch immigration to the area spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have created a unique heritage language community of varying proficiencies in Dutch among older individuals. Today, the language is most clearly represented in the community symbolically alongside artifacts of Dutch heritage for the expression of the community's shared immigrant identity. The article shows how the heritage language remains an important part of the community's identity, although it has lost its communicative function.