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Little Germany, known in German as Kleindeutschland and Deutschländle and called Dutchtown by contemporary non-Germans, [1] was a German immigrant neighborhood on the Lower East Side and East Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. The demography of the neighborhood began to change in the late 19th century, as non-German ...
1883 Annual Report of the German Society of the City of New York . German Society of the City of New York. 1884. Wust, Klaus (1984). Guardian on the Hudson: the German Society of the City of New York, 1784-1984. New York. ISBN 9780917968112. {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ; Wenner, George (1903).
Although the first German immigrants had arrived by 1700, most German-language newspapers flourished during the era of mass immigration from Germany that began in the 1820s. [ 1 ] Germans were the first non-English speakers to publish newspapers in the U.S., and by 1890, over 1,000 German-language newspapers were being published in the United ...
Louis F. Haffen – two-time borough president for Bronx, New York, 1898–1909; John Paul Hammerschmidt – served for 13 terms in the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas [525] William Havemeyer – mayor of New York City (1845–1846, 1848–1849, and 1873–1874)
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"From the Old to the New World" shows German emigrants boarding a steamer in Hamburg and arriving in New York. Harper's Weekly, (New York) November 7, 1874. Between 1850 and 1930, about 5 million Germans migrated to the United States, which peaked between 1881 and 1885, when a million Germans settled, primarily in the American Midwest. The ...
The outward perception shows a win-win for German immigration to North Carolina. ‘Paradise’ Hans Hilgenstock moved to North Carolina in 2004 after relocating from San Diego.
Pennsylvania fielded five German regiments, New York eleven, and Ohio six. ... The Justice Department prepared a list of all German aliens, counting approximately ...