On 26 May 1852, 151 persons (56 of whom were 14 or younger) left Mittelstrimmig for New York on the U.S. ship Henry Clay, landing there on 13 June of the same year. They made their new homes in Michigan and Wisconsin in, among other places, Green Bay, Washington County, Sheboygan, Milwaukee, Germantown, Farmington, Cedarburg and Appleton. Another wave of emigration followed in July of the very next year. This saw 39 persons leave, also bound for New York, with their route going by way of Cologne, Antwerp, Liverpool or Hamburg and Bremen. The rest of the emigrants – 54 persons – left Mittelstrimmig between 1829 and 1890 bound for North or South America. The parts of South America that some went to were the areas around Porto Alegre, Santa Cruz do Sul and San José. These communities can still be found today in Novo Hamburgo (called "Neu Hamburg" in German), São Leopoldo and Rio Grande. Thirty-one newspapers and more than 150 clubs were founded by the colonists.