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