Fritz Nierste started teaching at Bremen High School in 1951 at just 24 years old. A World War 2 vet who had presumably given the enemy many very, very difficult tests, he had come from Wesphalia, Indiana, and took over... Continue Reading →
Baseball was not just the national pastime in the early 20th century but the pastime for most Bremen residents as well. The little town had at least three teams, sometimes simultaneously—the Greens, the Blacks, and the Grays—who drew fans well... Continue Reading →
This spooky item ran May 18, 1900, in the Marshall County Independent (repeated from the Enquirer). No follow up was found, so perhaps the ghost hunters turned up nothing—or perhaps they never returned at all.... "Millan" Crum might be Milon... Continue Reading →
This matter-of-fact item appeared in the short-lived Semi-Weekly Independent of Plymouth on April 4, 1896. Click on the image to display a larger version. The story made it all the way to San Francisco, where it ran more briefly but... Continue Reading →
Keith Board gave a well-received History Chat this morning in the Mural Room of the P E Dietrich building in downtown Bremen. There were about a dozen in attendance as Mr. Board (he was a high school shop teacher for... Continue Reading →
Back in 2013, Bremen resident Lowell Roberts gave a talk at the Bremen Public Library during the Historic Bremen annual board meeting. He addressed the residents and family of those who fought in the Civil War, the campaigns they participated... Continue Reading →
September 9: Two ethnologists from the Übersee-Museum in Bremen, Germany, just finished spending ten days in the Bremen area, doing research for an exhibit on the town. Karolin Kruse and Miriam Fassbender came to study immigration, religion, social structure, and... Continue Reading →
2016 marks the 200th anniversary of the Indiana's becoming a state, and celebrations are planned state-wide. Maria Mikel spoke to a small crowd in the Mural Room at the Bremen History Center this morning to describe Bremen's participation. Click on... Continue Reading →
The History Center has been given a picture of the Bremen class of 1920, but the students are not identified by name, and there was no BHS yearbook produced in 1920. We need help in identifying the class members. The... Continue Reading →
The above photo was taken in 2005, but the Bremen Town Hall didn't always look like this. In the first half of the 20th century, the building on the southwest corner of Plymouth and Center streets was first the Union... Continue Reading →
August 25, Dean Kimble, the 97-year-old former proprietor of Kimble Furs in Bremen, gave a History Chat at the Bremen History Center on the fur business over his 50+ years in it. Mr. Kimble explained how his father Walter Kimble... Continue Reading →
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