The America Line: a Route for Immigrants from Germany's Eastern
Volume 18 No 3 • Fall 2009 The America Line: A Route for Immigrants from Germany’s Eastern Areas to Bremerhaven or Hamburg Cora Lee Kluge The routes of the America Line railroad. hen I was in Germany tential migrants. Likewise, the dif- Germany recently, I heard for ficult journeys undertaken by early the first time about immigrants who ventured into the Wthe so-called America Line, a rail- interior of the United States—long road line whose construction and and arduous overland trips, river INSIDE development were inextricably expeditions, or cruises through connected to the story of emigra- the Great Lakes—became much • Salinger in the News tion from German lands to the easier, cheaper, and more attractive • Dialect Shift in Freistadt, WI New World. • Language Matters for WI when the Erie Canal was opened in The development of transporta- • Online Resources, Part I 1825. Similarly, Chicago’s dramatic tion methods and routes has al- • Study Tour: Students from growth, from a population of just ways been one of the major factors Germany and Poland under 30,000 in 1850 to just under influencing human migration. • American Passage: History of 110,000 in 1860 and nearly 300,000 We know that when transatlantic Ellis Island, Book Review in 1870, was undoubtedly in large sailing ships were replaced with • Friends Profile: part a result of the coming of the Gary Gisselman steamships, the ocean voyage be- railroad to that city, beginning in • American History: 150 Years came less perilous and began to Ago appeal to greater numbers of po- Continued on page 4 DIRECTOR’S CORNER Greetings, Friends and Readers! t has been a beautiful end-of-the- summer season and beginning of the fall at the University of IWisconsin.
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