I know of two Mahlberg men who emigrated to America, but did not seem to live near other Mahlbergers. My great grandfather, August Binz, who was born in Mahlberg in 1846 but moved with his family to Freiburg in 1863. Differences with his father led him to emigrate to America in early 1865 where he joined the U.S. Army and had a varied career in the Indian Wars, ending as a first sergeant in the Black Hills of Dakota Territory in 1878 where he resigned because of ill health. He married, ranched in Gregory County, Dakota Territory, became mayor of the town of Gregory for 30 years and died there in 1930 and is buried in Gregory. A first cousin of his, Rudolf Binz, born in Mahlberg in 1844, seems to have emigrated to America in July 1869, arriving in New York. He eventually ended up as an unmarried farm hand in Lincoln County, Nevada. He died February 1927 and is buried in the Ursine Cemetery (or the Hollinger-Hammond Cemetery).