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'''The Saxon Lutheran Migration'''

'''The Saxon Lutheran Migration'''

During the 19th century, a variety of ethnic groups would settle in Perry County, including French, Belgians, and Swiss, along with a number of German Catholics. Possibly the most significant, however, was the arrival of Saxon Lutherans from Germany in the late 1830s. These were traditionalist Lutheran adherents who objected to the Kingdom of [[Prussia]]'s attempts to force them into a single church with [[Calvinists]], and chose to emigrate to America. Some 500-600 arrived in Perry County in 1839 and settled in its eastern portions (as well as in northeastern Cape Girardeau County to the south). Among the communities they established are the modern cities of Altenburg and Frohna, as well as the unincorporated communities of New Wells, Uniontown, and Wittenberg; and they would be instrumental in the founding of the [[Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod]].<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=MooAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1&dq&as_brr=1#v=onepage&q&f=false</ref> Eastern Perry County continues to have a strong German Lutheran presence, with some of the older residents still able to speak an old Saxon German dialect.<ref>https://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/when-we-re-gone-it-will-be-german-dialect-has/article_45715974-e8bd-5abd-888d-a14777195eee.html</ref>  

During the 19th century, a variety of ethnic groups would settle in Perry County, including French, Belgians, and Swiss, along with a number of German Catholics. Possibly the most significant, however, was the arrival of Saxon Lutherans from Germany in the late 1830s. These were traditionalist Lutheran adherents who objected to the Kingdom of [[Prussia]]'s attempts to force them into a single church with [[Calvinists]], and chose to emigrate to America. Some 500-600 arrived in Perry County in 1839 and settled in its eastern portions (as well as in northeastern Cape Girardeau County to the south). Among the communities they established are the modern cities of Altenburg and Frohna, as well as the unincorporated communities of New Wells, Uniontown, and Wittenberg; and they would be instrumental in the founding of the [[Lutheran Church Missouri Synod]].<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=MooAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1&dq&as_brr=1#v=onepage&q&f=false</ref> Eastern Perry County continues to have a strong German Lutheran presence, with some of the older residents still able to speak an old Saxon German dialect.<ref>https://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/when-we-re-gone-it-will-be-german-dialect-has/article_45715974-e8bd-5abd-888d-a14777195eee.html</ref>  

==Geography==

==Geography==