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saxonburg (dest)
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Saxonburg In 1831, a young German man named John Augustus Roebling and his younger brother, Karl, organized a small group of the younger people of their neighborhood and undertook to lead their emigration to the United States. They had planned to live their new lives in America in the West; however, certain financial and political difficulties led to the final adoption of a site near Pittsburgh for their proposed community. The town was at first called Germania, but later became known as Saxonburg. John Roebling later went on to design America's first wire rope, and serve as the chief architect of the Brooklyn Bridge. Roebling Park, on the corner of Rebecca and Water Street, serves as a memorial to his engineering prowess, with a demonstration of the strength of wire rope, and a 20-foot high model of his suspension bridge over Brooklyn (constructed in 2001). This is the site of the Saxonburg Museum.
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