Author: OTTENHEIMER, J.
Title: Lincoln Land Compagnie, Kentucky. Gesetzlich incorporirt. Colonien zu Lutherheim, Crab Orchard und Highland, Lincoln County, Kentucky.
Description: (Frankfort, Kentucky), John D. Woods, (1884?). 20 pp. New cloth. (original front cover preserved; name stamp on front cover and title page) (Kentucky Bureau für Geologie und Einwanderung 37) ¶ To encourage European immigration to Kentucky, in 1880, the commonwealth established the State Commission of Immigration. The state’s effort to attract immigrants caught the attention of New Yorker Jacob Ottenheimer, who eventually purchased thousands of acres of land in Lincoln County with the intention of settling not only immigrants but others from outside the state. Ottenheimer advertised in east coast newspapers and attracted hundreds of German and Swiss arrivals to buy and work the land in Lincoln County. Lutherheim, named after the Lutheran church established there, was later renamed Ottenheim.

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