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in their search for religious freedom. At its high point, Wittenberg had as many as 400 residents. In addition to St. Paul's
Lutheran church and one-room school, the town supported a brewery, a furniture factory, two grocery stores, a tavern, a flour mill, a cooperage, and two hotels.
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