Germans in Ohio
Many early settlers of the area that became Ohio were Germans from Pennsylvania. They dug canals in the 1820s and 1830s, worked as farmers, or built steamboats. Counties with heavy German
Germans in Ohio
Many early settlers of the area that became Ohio were Germans from Pennsylvania. They dug canals in the 1820s and 1830s, worked as farmers, or built steamboats. Counties with heavy German settlement included Auglaize, Columbiana, Fairfield, Jefferson, Mercer, Perry, Portage, and Stark. Many of these communities had street and business signs printed in English and German and many had a German language newspaper.
Starting in the 1830s, many German immigrants began to settle in Cincinnati. This city, which in 1830 was only five percent German-American, was, by 1840, 30 percent German-American. An area of Cincinnati became known as Over-the-Rhine because of the large number of Germans who