Willkommen to Little Bavaria!
Sep 06, 2022
2 minutes
by Lynn Anderson
When Volkswagen of America relocated their corporate offices to Michigan back in 1982, obviously, they weren’t the first Germans to emigrate to this part of the country.
In 1845, Lutheran Pastor August Craemer bravely journeyed from Bavaria to Michigan’s fertile Saginaw Valley with 13 fellow brethren, to begin the tiny settlement of Frankenmuth. The German word “Franken” represents the Province of Franconia in
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