Artikler om innvandring og utvandring og om migrasjonskjeder
Before the Civil War, emigrants from Norway usually crossed the Atlantic on board a Norwegian sailing ship from a Norwegian harbor to New York or Quebec. This mode of transportation changed radically in the 1870s. Trans-Atlantic steamship companies from British ports offered faster journeys. A steamship crossed the Atlantic in less than half the time […]
Emigrants from Byneset, Trøndelag, ended up in Montana Read more...
Two Grande brothers from Trondheim, the middle of Norway, in 1866 set out on a long and winding journey to the United States. They crossed fjords and oceans, followed rivers, roads and trails over plains, valleys and mountain ranges before they ended up in the grassy Musselshell Valley, Montana, in 1878. The journey was not
From the middle of Norway to Musselshell Valley, Montana Read more...
A map of Chicago from 1830, showing streets and buildings. When Cleng Peerson came here in 1833, he saw a “small village”. But the streets for a greater city were laid out as early as in in 1834.
Better land further west? Read more...
Quakers in the town of Stavanger gave Cleng Peerson an assignment to travel to New York in 1821. They wanted him to explore the conditions for Norwegian immigrants. The assignment was fulfilled in 1825 with the first organized group of emigrants from Norway to the Americas. Cleng Peerson was born in Tysvær, Rogaland county, western
1825 – the beginning of organized emigration from Norway Read more...
In July 2025 it will be 200 years since the first organized group of Norwegian immigrants left the city of Stavanger, Norway. Cleng Peerson was their pathfinder in western New York in 1825, and in Fox River, Illinois, in 1833. His last 15 years in Texas have been a mystery. Most Norwegian immigrants settled in
From 2023: First priority Texas, Montana, Alberta and Saskatchewan Read more...
From the end of the American Civil War and until the economic bust in 1893, European immigrants chose to settle in the Midwest and the Northwestern parts of the United States. Even emigrants in Canada preferred the United States during those decades. At least 1.8 million Canadians moved south across the border into the United
Some patterns of Norwegian immigration to America and Canada Read more...
Brunstad-familien fra Romedal i Hedmark reiste sammen en større gruppe sambygdinger med dampskip fra New Orleans 3. juledag 1851. Da de kom fram til Alexandria, Louisiana, måtte de flytte over på et mindre dampskip på grunn av den lave vannstanden. Dette skipet brakte dem helt fram til Shreveport, hvor de var framme om formiddagen den
Reisen fra New Orleans til Four Mile Prairie Read more...
De norske immigrantene til Texas mellom 1845 og borgerkrigen kom først og fremst fra noen kommuner i Agder og Hedmark. I Aust-Agder var det ifølge Odd Magnar Syversen 57 personer som emigrerte fra Holt sogn, 42 fra Åmli, 27 fra Tromøy, 25 fra Gjøvdal, 20 fra Tovdal, 19 fra Lillesand, og 18 fra Froland.[1] Det
Norske emigranter til New Orleans og Texas før borgerkrigen Read more...
I 1837 begynte skipsreder Lauritz Christian Stephansen med linjefart med seilskip over Atlanteren til Amerika. Han etablerte en direkterute mellom Bordeaux og New Orleans. Skipene fraktet tekstiler, vin og andre luksusvarer til Amerika. På tilbaketuren var skipene som regel fullastet med bomull. Rederen visste at mange utvandrere fra Agder hadde reist til Le Havre og
Hvordan havnet immigranter fra Hedmark i øst-Texas? Read more...
Våren 1833, så fort isen brøt opp på Lake Erie og Lake Michigan, dro Cleng Peerson vestover for å undersøke om det var bedre jord i de nye statene Michigan, Wisconsin og Illinois. Etter at han kom til den lille landsbyen Chicago, vandret han nordover langs Lake Michigan på velbrukte indianerstier mellom Chicago og Green
Cleng Peerson dro vestover våren 1833 Read more...