Our History

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Brief history of Emmanuel's Evangelical Lutheran Church Germantown, Ohio

It's centennial, A.D. 1809-A.D.

by Siebert, Albert F Publication Date 1909

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First Beginnings.

The history of the Lutheran Church in Germantown goes back to the opening years of the nineteenth century, before the town itself was laid out. As early as 1803-1804, the advance guard of Pennsylvania Germans began to arrive at the junction of the Big and Little Twin Creeks, where Germantown now stands. Big Twin Creek, with its flow and fall, afforded excellent mill sites and the land was fertile. Frontiersmen from Kentucky had first noticed the natural advantages of the place and some had settled here. Then, with the coming of the Pennsylvania Germans, they moved farther into the wilderness, and the later arrivals became the permanent settlers.

 

In 1804 and 1805 the stream of immigration was very large, mainly from Berks and adjacent counties in Pennsylvania, and by the close of the first decade of the last century, the country was comparatively thickly settled. Nearly all of these were either of the Lutheran or the Reformed Churches. Among those of the Lutheran faith were John Caspar Stoever, Jr., the oldest son of Rev. John Caspar Stoever the pioneer .

 

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