PERRY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PLANS SUNDAY PILGRIMAGE

ALTENBURG -- The Perry County Lutheran Historical Society will conduct its annual pilgrimage to historic Lutheran spots in east Perry County Sunday.

The guided program starts at Trinity Lutheran Church in Altenburg at 1 p.m.

The free tour is open to anyone interested in learning about the history of the Saxon-Lutheran immigration to Perry County in 1839. It was the largest religious immigration in the history of Missouri. A log college and seminary at Altenburg is the oldest Lutheran seminary west of the Mississippi River.

The Perry County Lutheran Historical Society was organized in 1910 to save the log college and seminary.