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 →
The next History Chat of 2019 is Randy Sriver, long-time teacher at Bremen High School, on Thursday, September 19, 2019, at 10:00 a.m. Please enter by the old bank entrance at the corner of Plymouth and Center. Those who attend... Continue Reading →
On October 18, 2018, John Zentz delivered a History Chat for Historic Bremen in the Mural Room of the PE Dietrich building. He covered his career as a barber as well as his life of service to Republican party politics.... Continue Reading →
The next History Chat of 2019 is Bruce Jennings, Bremen's long-time high school principal, on Thursday, August 15, 2019, at 10:00 a.m. Please enter by the old bank entrance at the corner of Plymouth and Center. Those who attend find... 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 →
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 →
The next History Chat of 2019 is Frank DeSantis, Bremen's long-time teacher and coach, on Thursday, July 18, 2019, at 10:00 a.m. Please enter by the old bank entrance at the corner of Plymouth and Center. Those who attend find... 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 →
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 →
The first History Chat of 2019 is Don Bunge, Bremen's long-time football coach and teacher, on Thursday, June 20, 2019, at 10:00 a.m. Please enter by the old bank entrance at the corner of Plymouth and Center. Those who attend... Continue Reading →
In late April, this author met with Phyllis [Sheetz] Borkholder, who offered a large number of digital photos and some physical photos for our collection. These included a family scrapbook and four family photo collections that include Sheetz, Berger, and... Continue Reading →
Bill Parton of Sturgis, MI, sent us a box of boxes. They appear to be little boxes that, when assembled in order, form a kind of representation of a larger box of the sort that would have contained an RCA... Continue Reading →
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