1. Guettner Family Prussia to Poplar Springs F J (Joe) Riddle, Jr. & Jeannie Howard Riddle (Charley Guettner line) 8-3-2014

2. 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

3. 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)

4. 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

5. 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.

6. 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

7. 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

8. Bauer Guettner To New York 1

9. 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.

10. New York Hamburg 2

11. 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

12. New York Charleston SC 3 4 5 Hamburg SC Chattanooga TN

13. 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.

14. 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

15. Chattanooga TN Kingston TN 7 6 Poplar Springs

16. 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)

17. 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