Observations made upon a journey through the interior of the United States of North America : in the year 1819 / by Ferdinand Ernst ; translated from the German by E.P. Baker A.M. professor of German in McKendree College.

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Observations made upon a journey through the interior of the United States of North America : in the year 1819 / by Ferdinand Ernst ; translated from the German by E.P. Baker A.M. professor of German in McKendree College.

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Description of journey made by land from Baltimore, Maryland to the Mississippi River and south to New Orleans. Includes impressions of Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and the Rappite colony at New Harmony, Indiana. Describes flora and fauna, meeting with German immigrants on his journey through Pennsylvania and Ohio, and his travel on the Mississippi River.

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Ernst, Ferdinand, ca. 1784-1822.

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German immigrant and land speculator who organized a mass immigration to Vandalia, Illinois in 1820. From the description of Observations made upon a journey through the interior of the United States of North America : in the year 1819 / by Ferdinand Ernst ; translated from the German by E.P. Baker A.M. professor of German in McKendree College. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 30366302 ...

Baker, Edwin P.

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Harmony Society

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The original German, utopian community, Harmonie Society, arrived in Pennsylvania in the 1780s, relocated to New Harmony, Indiana, in 1814. It established a final home, Economy, near Ambridge, in western Pennsylvania, in 1825. The Society prospered through 1868, dissolving itself in 1905 after membership declined. From the description of Harmony Society collection, 1838-1935. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 126881760 The Harmony Society was a G...