Tuesday, July 22, 2008

INFORMATIONAL MEETING AT DEUTSCHHEIM STATE HISTORIC SITE IS JULY 28

JEFFERSON CITY, MO., JULY 16, 2008 -- The Missouri Department of Natural Resources will hold an informational meeting Monday, July 28 to discuss issues related to Deutschheim State Historic Site in Hermann. The meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. in the site's Stark House, which located at 109 West 2nd St.
Representatives from the historic site will address the activity at the site in the past year and proposed plans for the future. The public is invited to share comments and ask questions about the facility and its services.
The informational meeting is part of an ongoing effort by the department to ensure that the public has input on services offered in state parks and historic sites.
Persons requiring special services or accommodations to attend the meeting can make arrangements by calling Deutschheim State Historic Site at 573-486-2200 or the department toll free at 800-334-6946 (voice) or 800-379-2419 (Telecommunications Device for the Deaf). For more information about Missouri state parks and historic sites, visit the Web at www.mostateparks.com.

Deutschheim State Historic Site captures the culture and heritage of the German people who migrated to Missouri in the mid- to late-19th century. Their home interiors, tools, implements, garden plantings and architecture quickly became a reflection of Missouri's diverse culture.
The Pommer-Gentner house, built in 1840, is a sterling example of high-style German neoclassicism and is furnished to reflect the earlier settlement period of the 1830s and 1840s. Behind the house, visitors will tour a period garden and a small half-timbered barn containing an exhibit of 19th century tools.
The Strehly house, built in stages from 1842 to 1869, has a traditional German vernacular front. It once contained a full-service printing company that produced a German-language newspaper. About 1857, Carl Strehly built a winery next to the house that today displays one of a few remaining carved wine casks in the Midwest. Grapevines, planted by the Strehlys in the 1850s, can still be seen running the length of the backyard.
Deutschheim's varied collections of German Americana are represented by galleries of changing artifacts and photographs. Tour Deutschheim's buildings and experience the daily life of German Americana the way it really happened 150 years ago!

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