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Guettner FamilyPrussia to Poplar Springs
F J (Joe) Riddle, Jr. & Jeannie Howard Riddle (Charley Guettner line)
8-3-2014
Guettner Family – Prussia to Poplar Springs
This is a brief description of how most of the German Families
including the Guettners came to America in the mid 1800s
Guettner Family – Prussia to Poplar Springs
Agenda Advertisement to entice Europeans to come to
Morgan County TN Original home in the Old Country Route to German Sea Port Ship to New York City Steamer from New York to Charleston SC Railroad from Charleston to Hamburg SC
(present North Augusta SC)
Guettner Family – Prussia to Poplar Springs
Agenda (continue) Hamburg SC to Chattanooga TN Purchase of the Original Guettner Farm in Poplar
Springs TN Chattanooga TN to Kingston TN Kingston TN to Poplar Springs TN Summary References
Guettner Family – Prussia to Poplar Springs
Advertisement to entice Europeans to come to Morgan County TN Mass immigration from Germany due to War, over
population, and the search for “The Land of Milk & Honey” Casper Bauer “drew a free-lot in Germany, which released
him from serving in the army, and also entitled him to leave Germany ”
Morgan County TN advertisement Influence of Dr. Frederick August Sienknecht
From the standpoint of service in the Colony (Morgan County Tennessee: German-Swiss Colony) Dr. Sienknecht was the most outstanding citizen.
Guettner Family – Prussia to Poplar Springs Original home in the Old Country
Prussia to Germany In 1871, German states united in creating the
German Empire under Prussian leadership The Bauers were from Kiel
Kiel is currently the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein
Kiel is a Sea Port on the Baltic Sea The Guettners were from Baden
Guettner Family – Prussia to Poplar Springs
1 - Route to German Sea Port Travel by RR or Stagecoach Kiel or Baden to Hamburg
Hamburg – A Sea Port on the Atlantic
Bauer
Guettner
To New York
1
Guettner Family – Prussia to Poplar Springs
2 - Ship to New York City Germany to America Hamburg to New York City Ship “The Howard”
It took six weeks to cross the ocean in a sail-boat.
Arrived in New York City : 21 May 1848
17 German families came together Guettners, Bauers,
Neergaards, Limburgs, etc.
New York
Hamburg
2
Guettner Family – Prussia to Poplar Springs 3 - Steamer from New York to
Charleston SC Typical travel by Steamer
4 - Railroad from Charleston to Hamburg SC First Railroad in America! Across the river from were the
Riddles live today 5 - Hamburg SC to
Chattanooga TN 1850 before RR into
Chattanooga from the south Travel by Wagon and
Horseback
New York
Charleston SC
3
4
5Hamburg SC
Chattanooga TN
Guettner Family – Prussia to Poplar Springs Purchase of the Original
Guettner Farm in Poplar Springs TN 1854 Joseph Ferdinand
Guettner purchased land in Roane County TN
Joseph Ferdinand Guettner purchased the Original Guettner Farm/Home Site of 161.5 Acres from W. M. Andrews for $325.
Land outside of towns averaged $0.50 to $4.00 per acre at that time ~1850. J F Guettner paid ~ $2.00 per acre.
Guettner Family – Prussia to Poplar Springs 6 - Chattanooga TN to
Kingston TN About 1850 there were 3
scheduled Steam Boats per day from Chattanooga to Kingston
Joseph Ferdinand Guettner ran a “Bakery” in Kingston for many years
7 - Kingston TN to Poplar Springs TN Wagon, Horseback, or you
walked
Chattanooga TN
Kingston TN
7
6
Poplar Springs
Guettner Family – Prussia to Poplar Springs
Summary: Types of travel
Stagecoach, Ship for crossing the Atlantic, Steamer down American coast, Railroad inland, Steam Boat up Tennessee River, then Wagon, Horseback, or Walk the final journey
Distance Approximately 4500 miles
Time 10 years (1848 to 1858)
Guettner Family – Prussia to Poplar Springs References
Deed Book M, page 266 - Roane County Notes from Dede Bauer (thought to be Cordelia
Bauer - daughter of Dettfill Bauer) Ancestry “The Howard” “Guettner Family Prominent in Early Kingston
Development” Roane County News, August 1972 “A Brief History of the Guettner Descendants”
Jeannie Howard Riddle, 1979 “German and Swiss Colonization in Morgan
County, Tennessee”, Hobart Schofield Cooper, December 1925.
Notes from Pauline Neergaard Godwin