A photograph of the Boonville Business District taken in 1860 Overview The city of Boonville, Missouri, located in Cooper County, is a prime example of a town Germans immigrated to. I found a photo entitled “Main Street” from The Missouri State Historical Society and chose to analyze German culture and ways…

Germans in Missouri With the influx of German immigrants to Missouri, many Catholic, Lutheran, and Methodist churches began to appear in Jefferson City. These churches served as gathering places for the rapidly expanding German community in the area. Church services were often held in German and the buildings themselves had a heavy German…

The History of Old Munichburg — Today, Old Munichburg is the historic core of Jefferson City’s Southside District. According to Explore Missouri’s German Heritage by W Arthur Mehrhoff, Germans fled their mother country due to Prussian repression in the late 1840s, especially 1848. These immigrants were known as the 48ers. Some of the 48ers moved to…

The article I found was from World and Way and was published on September 6, 1928. The article was titled “Many arguments but Few Reasons Against Prohibition.” The eighteenth amendment became part of the constitution by one of the largest majorities ever seen. 46 out of 48 states had ratified…