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Augusta's "Harmony" -- the history of a small German Immigrant town (300-400 population) on the Missouri River near St. Louis, from settlement in the 1830s to the Depression of the 1930s. Emphasis is on the 1856-1922 cultural society, Harmonie-Verein, that held the community together through music and German language cultural programs. Special focus is also on the political encounter of German Immigrants with the Civil War as Unionists and with World War I as discrimineted "hyphens," as well as the economic effect on a small immigrant settlement of Prohibition and the early rural Depression. The immigrants' record of successful modernization in transportation, education, architecture, etc. is also chronicled. Extensive documentation is from German and English-language county newspapers and local municipal records.Mallinckrodt, Anita M. is the author of 'Augusta's Harmony : The Harmonie-Verein Cultural Society 1856-1922', published 2005 under ISBN 9780931227172 and ISBN 0931227178.
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