Ottenheim - Stanford KY
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Don.Morfe
N 37° 27.350 W 084° 38.100
16S E 709181 N 4148067
A German-Swiss settlement, 4 miles southeast, started by immigrants, early 1880s.
Waymark Code: WM128M3
Location: Kentucky, United States
Date Posted: 03/29/2020
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Ottenheim-A German-Swiss settlement, 4 miles southeast, started by immigrants, early 1880s. Guided here by Joseph Ottenheimer "to this land of great opportunity" they found it to be a wilderness. Undaunted they built crude log cabins, then cleared the virgin land and developed it into a highly productive agricultural area. By 1886 a Lutheran and a Catholic Church had been built.
Location: intersection of U.S. 27 and Kentucky Route 643, Stanford KY 40484
Marker Name: Ottenheim
Marker Location: Roadside
Type of Marker: Other
Marker Number (for official markers): 955
Group(s) Responsible for placing Marker:
1966 by Kentucky Historical Society-Kentucky Department of Highways.
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