Who were the Salburgers?

The Salzburgers were a group of peaceful and hard working German speaking people from present day Austria. This group was being discriminated against by the King of Austria. The king gave the Salzburgers three months to leave their country. King George II, who was himself a German Protestant, offered the Salzburgers the opportunity to settle in the colony of Georgia. Upon arriving in Georgia, the Salzburgers settled a town they named Ebenezer, meaning “Stone of Help.”