Clearing Land

ID: 2660
This file appears in: Ottenheim
Clearing Land

This photograph shows men clearing fields at New Austria in Boyle County. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Ottenheim

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #955 in Hall's Gap remembers Ottenheim, a German-Swiss immigrant settlement established in Lincoln County in the 1880s. With the late-nineteenth century rush of European immigrants seeking new opportunities in the United…