Last year, we were given on loan-term loan a ledger of the John Link & Lewis Fink sawmill in German township. It is filled with many Bremen-area names of customers who had logs sawn into lumber. It's a fascinating document... Continue Reading →
A new addition to Historic Bremen's research capabilities is the Kodak Slide N Scan, which allows us to view and capture slides and film. This is valuable, because the Bremen Enquirer has only been scanned by Newspapers.com up to 1964.... Continue Reading →
Dan Shuppert, long-time Bremen English teacher and counselor, allowed us to add his collection of sports teams he coached over the years to our digital collection. The photos range from the early 1980s to the 2000s. Note: Many of the... Continue Reading →
Dudley Keyser snapped these slides of an 18-car B&O train derailment in Bremen in April of 1978. There were no injuries, but the electric power to Wakarusa and Nappanee was taken out for some time, and the cleanup of debris... Continue Reading →
Enoch Highshew was born and raised in Bremen. His parents and sisters remained here, but he left for opportunities in Plymouth and later Mishawaka. But early one morning, his teenage son found him in the family buggy, stone dead. It... Continue Reading →
One lark the teens of yesteryear would occasional indulge in was cross-dressing for fun. While usually reserved for Halloween and other parties, that wasn't always the case. Click an image to open it in Flickr. Many persons in the pictures... Continue Reading →
Among the items bought to us by the Bremen Public Library are several copies of the Lion's Roar, the high school newspaper put out during the 1970s. Here's one issue's "Grease Spot" column on Lee Anglemeyer's 1966 Ford Custom car... Continue Reading →
Sometimes you can tell a lot about a family from a single census record. These are key records for anyone doing family history research and are readily available on Ancestry.com (which requires a subscription) or FamilySearch.org (which is free). Take... Continue Reading →
We think of Bremen as a sleepy Midwestern town, but in the days before 1900, it could be as wild as any western town. Take the incident in April of 1896, when the call came to apprehend a gang of... Continue Reading →
Many Bremen residents will not be aware that the downtown was home to many grocery stores over the years. This includes the principle grocery store in Bremen for many years: Woodie's Supermarket. Woodie Schramm's grandfather Andrew came to America from... Continue Reading →
While yearbooks have been produced for Bremen High School every year since 1940 (and every four years before that, more or less, back to 1902), they were rarer for lower grades. But the 1976 US Bicentennial was a special year... Continue Reading →
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