We say goodbye to our friend Dean Kimble, who did three history chats for us on his life and family fur business. He was struck down in the prime of life at the age of 102. Dean was a woodworker... Continue Reading →
Brenda [Grove] Vergauwen visited the history center recently with an interest in the history of her small barn, which dates to around 1900 and must have served as a carriage house when the northwest side of Bremen was sparsely populated.... Continue Reading →
COVID-19 put the kibosh on Bremen's annual Firemen's Festival, which had seen annual festivities since 1940. The Bremen Agricultural Society had run a popular agricultural fair in the fall from 1889 to 1919; the fair grounds were sold in 1920.... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Bremen Enquirer - 27 Feb 1903
Items from the Bremen Enquirer from the old days. 1893 1906 1960
Historic Bremen 