A page from an accounting book of Carl Heinrich Diekmann, who started a general store in Minster just after arriving from Oldenburg in Germany.
CELINA - Some of west central Ohio's earliest settlers arrived in the new country in September 1834 in the Bark Everhard ship, which The Rev. David Hoying refers to as "The Mayflower of the Ohio Münsterland" - an area today containing Minster, Fort Loramie, Maria Stein and St. Henry. [
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