Historic Bremen has put together a time capsule filled with items commemorating the year that was 2020. A lot happened last year: the COVID-19 pandemic, major road repairs lasting months, businesses closing temporarily or permanently, employees working from home, remote... Continue Reading →
In 1899, horseless carriages were the talk of the town. Studebaker ordered one from the Winton company and soon announced they would add horseless carriages to their carriage offerings. There was general disagreement over whether such contraptions would amount to... 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 →
Bremen Enquirer - 27 Feb 1903
Mary Jo [Pease] McPherron grew up around Tippecanoe and taught school in Madison township, St Joe county, but her late husband Tom taught school in Bremen. He coached girls' track and boys' wrestling and taught higher mathematics for many years.... Continue Reading →
Hilton Swain was a Michiana banker and his wife Susie was a nurse when, in 1977, they decided to start a restaurant in Bremen. LaFree Lumber and Construction built them a large facility designed to resemble an L-shaped barn on... Continue Reading →
Brandon Rowe has passed along a digital album of wonderful school photos from the 1920s and '30s, when his grandmother's sister, Mary Young, was a teacher. Many of these are her personal copies, and she labeled the students. The collection... Continue Reading →
Prior to the 1930s, the north side of E Plymouth St was fully developed along the 100 block. Some of those buildings are still there, albeit greatly changed, but the ones at the east end are all gone. In 1935,... Continue Reading →
In 1909, a building was removed to make room for a new hotel built by Peter E Dietrich, a building which today houses the Bremen Senior Living apartments and the Bremen History Center. The old building was moved to N... Continue Reading →
Dudley and Marj Stoller built The Corner lunch room and soda fountain in 1948. It was never really on the corner of US 6 and SR 331, but originally its parking lot was. In 1952, the Stollers sold the restaurant... Continue Reading →
About 1850, Jacob BN Klinger (1819-1894) was elected surveyor of Marshall county, a post he would hold for 12 years. He engaged his much younger brother, Jeremiah M "Jerry" Klinger (1835-1911) to join him, and the two proceeded to survey... Continue Reading →
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