John J Wright's Opera House occupied the second floor of the building above Wright's Store (today's Panda Garden). It opened in the early 1880s (before the Enquirer was around to document it) and hosted the first real Bremen High School... Continue Reading →
Tomorrow is February 29: leap day. It used to be a common tradition in America that gals could propose marriage to the feller of their choice in a leap year. In late 1895, the Enquirer cautioned that the upcoming year... Continue Reading →
February 26 would be Doc Bowen's 98th birthday. The History Center has a nice display of photos of his life and career. Doc's companion through 47 years from their wedding in 1939 to her death from a rare bone marrow... Continue Reading →
The Enquirer published this little pre-Valentine tale January 30, 1886. How much of it is true is impossible to tell. The postmaster at the time was John Bauer, Jr., who would have been 49. As a reminder that Bremen was... Continue Reading →
The year is 1907. Football is a brutal game with few rules and fewer pads. Boys are breaking bones and cracking heads and riding home in horse-drawn buggies or horseless carriages (the Model T didn't even start production until 1908).... Continue Reading →
In his autobiography, Doc Bowen said that he had nothing to do with Bremen getting the US 6 highway by-pass or, for that matter, a state police post, and that he always looked askance at his gubernatorial staff when they... Continue Reading →
Although Bremen was first surveyed and platted in 1851, the beginning of the town is often dated to 1871, when it was incorporated. What was it like back then? In 1870, the census of Bremen covered just three pages: 120... Continue Reading →
This writer had the pleasure of spending an afternoon with Calvin Koontz of the Plymouth area recently, during which we pored over four photo albums donated to the History Center a few years ago. Those albums had been partially scanned... Continue Reading →
The town whistle at the Bremen Light & Water Plant by Shadyside Park has been refurbished by Paul Shelton of Michigan City and is being blown again. Listen for it. Here's a link to the WNDU coverage. It is an... Continue Reading →
Newspapers subscribe to other newspapers and pick up the more interesting articles to re-run them. If the story is particularly interesting, a story re-run by one paper gets picked up by another that subscribes to that one. Here's one from... Continue Reading →
Happy new year from the Bremen A&W Drive-In... The A&W opened in Bremen in the summer of 1957. They closed each winter (you can't walk orders to the cars very easily if there's snow all over), but before long Ervin... Continue Reading →
Several towns started near Bremen never reached a self-sustaining size. The remarkable document below tells part of the tale; it is the official postmaster record for Marshall county, and lists the towns, their postmasters, and their name changes over time.... Continue Reading →
Historic Bremen 