Wherever German immigrants settled in the Middle West, from Missouri and Illinois, to Kansas, and Texas, they built the Little German House.
A colony of German Lutherans from Saxony settle in the hills descending to the Mississippi: Altenburg, Frohna, Wittenburg, and others close-by.
G.H. Brockschmidt bought Joseph Kinyon's land grant along Elkhorn Creek, Illinois, platted the town of Veneday, built a mill, and gave the land and money for the construction of an Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Volga-Germans from the Ukraine settled Liebanthal, Kansas in 1876. They built their houses with the entrance, facing away from the street, because the feared attacks by Native Americans.
Germans settled the Texas Hill Country and Fredericksburg in 1846. They named their town after Prince Frederick of Prussia. |
