From Baltimore, immigrants could travel by way of the national road from Cumberland to Wheeling, where many took passage on the Ohio River. One of the earliest ports of entry was Baltimore, Several ports of entry into the United States were made available for German immigrants heading to Illinois. The Hoeinghaus, Toenningsmeyer, Gutzler and Voigt families With the availability of cheap land in the Mississippi Valley, and publications like " Report on the Journey to the Western States of NorthĪmerica" by Gottfried Duden (a Prussian lawyer) describing of the pleasures of pioneer life in the United States, Illinois quickly became a destination of choice. German immigration to the United States began in the 1700's, however, it wasn't until after 1830 that southern Illinois saw an increase in As a result, pastors and laymen were either imprisoned or persecuted and many decided to flee the Teaching in the traditional ways of the Lutheran church. Prussian government and king, the 'Old Lutherans' (a term referring to those who rejected the new form of religious worship) decided to continue From 1821-1830, additional decrees from the King forced the churches to follow a new agenda of worship. In 1817 Frederick William III, King of Prussia, issued a decree declaring that the Lutheran and Reformed churches would be joined into one Evangelical ChristianĬhurch. With economic and political uncertainties among the main reasons that Germans left the fatherland, there was also the desire for religious freedom. The Trinity Lutheran Church on South Hickory and Seventh Streets in Centralia, Illinois in 1927. For me, personally, several of the founding fathers of the church were my ancestors, so it is a genealogical This blog entry is a look into the history of the Trinity Lutheran Church, its devout German Lutheran founders, and theirįamilies who lived in Washington, Clinton, and Marion Counties. These immigrants were looking for religious freedom and Of families who had immigrated from Germany to the United States in the mid to late 1800's. Literally the center of many people's lives for years, the church was surrounded by the homes Is now condemned to a fate of rubble in the not too distance future. The Trinity Lutheran Church, located at 700 South Hickory Street in Centralia, Illinois is now a shell of a building. Trinity Lutheran Church, Centralia, Illinois
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