Ed Tobler and Wife

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This file appears in: Ottenheim
Ed Tobler and Wife

A German couple is shown in the photograph from a settlement in Laurel 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…