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Germans from Pennsylvania and from Germany brought Lutheran and Reformed churches and numerous smaller sects such as the Amish. Yankees brought Presbyterians and Congregationalists. Revivals during the Second Great Awakening spurred the growth of Methodist, Baptist and Christian (Church of Christ) churches.
28 wrz 2017 · In 1917 when the U.S. declared war against Germany, a lot of people thought German Americans were the enemy. They changed street names that sounded German, banned schools from teaching German, and got rid of German publications. They even changed the name of an Ohio city.
11 lut 2020 · Immigrants “settling” Ohio came from the East Coast and Germany, from free people of African descent to slaves crossing the Ohio River, from merchants to Johnny Appleseed. They fought over what freedom in a rapidly expanding republican nation meant, and they left legacies and institutions of enduring significance, including Ohio University.
6 kwi 2017 · The University opened in 1808, with one building, three students, and one professor, but it grew into what is now Ohio University in Athens, Ohio's oldest educational institution. Rufus Putnam, who led the first 48 to Ohio, was an early trustee of the university.
Frederick Post and David Zeisberger, Moravian missionaries from Pennsylvania, and pioneers, Conrad Weiser, John Heckewelder and Ebenezer Zane (Zahn), were some of the first Germans to explore and establish settlements in Ohio back in the late 18th century.
23 lip 2024 · Many historians believe French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle was the first European to explore the region in the 1670s, claiming it for France. However, the British...
In 1772, he helped create two Moravian communities called Gnadenhutten (German for House of Grace) and Schoenbrunn (German for Beautiful Spring). It was in the village of Schoenbrunn that some believe the first school was created in what would become Ohio, as well as developing the first “Civil Code” …
