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Threshing Grain. Beach, North Dakota For more than a century, hundreds of thousands of the newest German immigrants made their way to America's farm country, where they helped form the backbone of the nation's agriculture. As previous generations of Germans had before them, these immigrants made their homes on the outskirts of European settlement, where land was affordable. Germans poured into the available lands in the center of the North American continent--the valleys of the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri Rivers--and began farming the fertile land around the Great Lakes. By the mid-19th century, over half of the German-born people in North America lived in this region.
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Original Title: TIL that in the late 19th Century, German immigrants were among the first to cultivate oranges in California and on the West Coast, forever transforming the agriculture and economy of that region of the United States.