Woodie Schramm came to Bremen from Warsaw in 1944 and bought the Home Cash Grocery from Lester Koontz. In 2014, Woodie's son Charles gave a History Chat talk at the Bremen History Center on the history of the business and... Continue Reading →
The Pizza Hut building on the northeast corner of Plymouth & Marshall was knocked down today to make way for a somewhat larger building in August that will reportedly have a little dine-in space. The work is being done by... Continue Reading →
The Main family recently donated the old telephone switchboard from the Liberty Coach plant to Historic Bremen. It is on display now at the History Center. An operator sat in front of the switchboard and connected those who rang her... Continue Reading →
John J Wright's Opera House occupied the second floor of the building above Wright's Store (today's Panda Garden). It opened in the early 1880s (before the Enquirer was around to document it) and hosted the first real Bremen High School... Continue Reading →
The year is 1907. Football is a brutal game with few rules and fewer pads. Boys are breaking bones and cracking heads and riding home in horse-drawn buggies or horseless carriages (the Model T didn't even start production until 1908).... Continue Reading →
In his autobiography, Doc Bowen said that he had nothing to do with Bremen getting the US 6 highway by-pass or, for that matter, a state police post, and that he always looked askance at his gubernatorial staff when they... Continue Reading →
Although Bremen was first surveyed and platted in 1851, the beginning of the town is often dated to 1871, when it was incorporated. What was it like back then? In 1870, the census of Bremen covered just three pages: 120... Continue Reading →
Happy new year from the Bremen A&W Drive-In... The A&W opened in Bremen in the summer of 1957. They closed each winter (you can't walk orders to the cars very easily if there's snow all over), but before long Ervin... Continue Reading →
Several towns started near Bremen never reached a self-sustaining size. The remarkable document below tells part of the tale; it is the official postmaster record for Marshall county, and lists the towns, their postmasters, and their name changes over time.... Continue Reading →
Here is Principal Cook with part of the 6th grade class in 1945, most of whom would graduate as part of the class of 1951. Click on an image to display a gallery. The photo was taken at what is... Continue Reading →
Historic Bremen has recently added more than 150 additional photos to the Historic.Bremen Flickr account from the Schneider collection. This is a collection of images collected and displayed by Don Schneider over his many years as a barber in Bremen.... Continue Reading →
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 →
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