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Monday, May 5th, 2025
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Oldenburg immigrants established settlements first in Cincinnati and Covington, Kentucky, then in Minster in 1832; Oldenburg, Indiana in 1836; Teutopolis, Illinois, in 1838; and New Vienna, Iowa, in 1842. That was followed by Meire's Grove, Minnesota, and Seneca, Kansas.

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Coming to America
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. [More]
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