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Historic Bremen

Bremen, Indiana

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Derek Jensen

Historian, film lover, and bon vivant

1889 & 1927: “The Good Old Days”

A reminder that the "good old days" are generally just whenever the speaker was a child, and the people who really remember the old days didn't think they were so good. Bremen Enquirer - 21 Sep 1889 Bremen Enquirer -... Continue Reading →

1913 – Streets paved with brick

The 2020 road work on SR 106 thru Bremen and related street work on Center Street has revealed the original brick paving on Bremen's main streets. In 1911, the town began to consider the need to pave its streets, as... Continue Reading →

Heyde-Heckaman family

This author had the pleasure to sit down recently with Fran and Arden Druckamiller and go thru the Druckamillers' Bremen relations. The Druckamillers themselves were from the Syracuse, Indiana, area, but they married into the Heyde-Heckaman family. They allowed Historic... Continue Reading →

1918 – “Spanish influenza” pandemic comes to Bremen

In 1918, a new and virulent strain of influenza swept the world, killing tens of millions. The spread was worsened by the fact that Europe was embroiled in the Great War, later to be called World War One. Recruits came... Continue Reading →

2020: COVID-19

The Bremen History Center is still closed for the time being, as the COVID-19 coronavirus keeps most Americans at home. But we remain aware that history must be recorded in order to be preserved. So we have collected photos of... Continue Reading →

2019 – Google Street View of Bremen

If you're not familiar with Google Street View, it is a feature of Google Maps that shows the view along roads and streets from the perspective of Google's trucks that bristle with cameras. As the truck moves, it periodically takes... Continue Reading →

Old Lutheran Church renovation – open house March 8, 3 PM

This week, Historic Bremen purchased the old Lutheran Church on South Street known as The Gathering Place. The property had been owned and cared for by Kent Koontz since 2002. In addition, for the past 60 days, a volunteer group... Continue Reading →

1903 – Organ destruction

Bremen Enquirer - 27 Feb 1903

Thanksgiving thru the years

Items from the Bremen Enquirer from the old days. 1893 1906 1960

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 →

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