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Historic Bremen

Bremen, Indiana

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Derek Jensen

Historian, film lover, and bon vivant

McPherron donations

Mary Jo [Pease] McPherron grew up around Tippecanoe and taught school in Madison township, St Joe county, but her late husband Tom taught school in Bremen. He coached girls' track and boys' wrestling and taught higher mathematics for many years.... Continue Reading →

Berg donations

Recently, Barb Berg offered an antique horse fountain and hitching posts to Historic Bremen. And this past week, the means were rallied and the items retrieved from the Berg farm on Grape Road south of town. One is a large,... Continue Reading →

History Chat: Larry Kipfer

The next History Chat of 2019 is Larry Kipfer, long-time director of Bremen parks, on Thursday, October 17, 2019, at 10:00 a.m. Please enter by the old bank entrance at the corner of Plymouth and Center. Those who attend find... Continue Reading →

Bremen Iron & Metal

Bremen Iron & Metal Co. was founded in 1943 in Bremen by the Ochstein brothers--Charles, Isaac, Sam, & Abe--after buying the Bremen Junk & Wrecking Yard from Claude Mitchel in 1942. They moved from Maple & Whitlock (now a residential... Continue Reading →

History Chat: Randy Sriver

The next History Chat of 2019 is Randy Sriver, long-time teacher at Bremen High School, on Thursday, September 19, 2019, at 10:00 a.m. Please enter by the old bank entrance at the corner of Plymouth and Center. Those who attend... Continue Reading →

History Chat: John Zentz

On October 18, 2018, John Zentz delivered a History Chat for Historic Bremen in the Mural Room of the PE Dietrich building. He covered his career as a barber as well as his life of service to Republican party politics.... Continue Reading →

History Chat: Bruce Jennings

The next History Chat of 2019 is Bruce Jennings, Bremen's long-time high school principal, on Thursday, August 15, 2019, at 10:00 a.m. Please enter by the old bank entrance at the corner of Plymouth and Center. Those who attend find... Continue Reading →

Tom McPherron sports collection

Tom McPherron passed away in 2018 at the age of 84. He was known for his career as a math teacher and coach at Bremen High School, which lasted from 1966 to 1996, and for his career in the military... Continue Reading →

1977: The Mint Still opens

Hilton Swain was a Michiana banker and his wife Susie was a nurse when, in 1977, they decided to start a restaurant in Bremen. LaFree Lumber and Construction built them a large facility designed to resemble an L-shaped barn on... Continue Reading →

History Chat: Frank DeSantis

The next History Chat of 2019 is Frank DeSantis, Bremen's long-time teacher and coach, on Thursday, July 18, 2019, at 10:00 a.m. Please enter by the old bank entrance at the corner of Plymouth and Center. Those who attend find... Continue Reading →

1859: D(r)unkards?

The Church of the Brethren was once knows as the "Dunkard" church, owing to the practice of baptism, or "dunking", like the Baptists. There weren't many churches in German township at the time, so this would likely have been either... Continue Reading →

Marylin (Cripe) Haines family collection

Brandon Rowe has passed along a digital album of wonderful school photos from the 1920s and '30s, when his grandmother's sister, Mary Young, was a teacher. Many of these are her personal copies, and she labeled the students. The collection... Continue Reading →

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