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 →
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 →
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
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 →
Bremen Iron & Metal Co. was founded in 1943 in Bremen by the Ochstein brothers--Charles, Isaac, Sam, & Abe--after buying the Bremen Junk & Wrecking Yard from Claude Mitchel in 1942. They moved from Maple & Whitlock (now a residential... Continue Reading →
Tom McPherron passed away in 2018 at the age of 84. He was known for his career as a math teacher and coach at Bremen High School, which lasted from 1966 to 1996, and for his career in the military... Continue Reading →
The Church of the Brethren was once knows as the "Dunkard" church, owing to the practice of baptism, or "dunking", like the Baptists. There weren't many churches in German township at the time, so this would likely have been either... Continue Reading →
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