My great-great grandparents immigrated to Perry County, Missouri in 1838-1839. They were part of a German Lutheran immigration which endeavored to establish a Lutheran community in America.
This blog is intended to share the stories of this Perry County community, both past and present. One thing the early colonists considered essential was a Christian education. With that in mind, they built a log cabin to be used as a school. This log cabin college would later become what is presently known as Concordia Seminary, a school for the training of pastors of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. That school is now located in St. Louis. The original log cabin college was built on property that I now own here in Perry County, and that is why I chose the title for this blog. The actual log cabin can be found in Altenburg, next to Trinity Lutheran Church.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

New Year's Eve 1838

The first shipload of German immigrants landed in the city of New Orleans on New Year's Eve in 1838.  They were looking forward to seeing what their new homeland would be like.  What they saw, however, were the wild celebrations that a group of people were having as they welcomed in a New Year.  The conservative group was not impressed with what they saw.  They were all the more repulsed when they viewed the slavery which was common there.  These people were happy to leave that area to travel up the Mighty Mississippi to what would become their new home.  This experience in New Orleans may well have contributed to these people desiring to stick to their Biblical values in the years to come.
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