Chronology
Excerpts from Walter W. Grothaus
From The New Bremen Centennial
Book
additional notes by Johanna
Schroer
1832
Company
of Germans organized in Cincinnati
for
the purpose of locating a town
to be colonized by German Protestants.
Ten
acres were purchased
from
the government
at one dollar per acre.
1833
Town
named “Bremen” and recorded
in
Mercer County on June 11, 1833.
1835
Name
of town changed
from
“Bremen” to New Bremen”.
1837
New
Bremen incorporated
under
provisions of
HB
No. 374, Ohio Legislature.
Passed
March 23, 1837
1847
Township
German,
comprising
what is now
German
and Jackson,
Was
divided into a north and south
Election
precinct
by
an act of the General Assembly.
1848
Auglaize
County established
from
Mercer County as Ohio’s
84th
of 88 Counties.
1849
Wapakoneta
becomes the
Auglaize
County Seat
to
the chagrin of St. Marys
1850
1850, there were five hotels in New Bremen:
the Lehmkuhl, Meyer, Wilhelmy, Minkner, and the Lanfersieck House.
There were ten saloons and six dance halls.
The 1850 Federal census lists a variety of occupations
including brick mason, butcher, clerk, (wooden) shoemaker,
boat captain, teacher, miller, and a physician.
Businesses listed included ten cooperages, six shoemaker shops,
six blacksmith shops, a carriage shop,
several pork-packing houses,
and a half dozen canal boats, employing six men each.
The census indicates 302 local farmers.
1858
German
Township divided into
German
and Jackson Townships
1876
New
Bremen officially united six communities
1833
Bremen's original plat (west of canal)
1837
Amsterdam (lost to cholera 1849)
1838
Mohrmansville (North of New Bremen)
1853
Ober Bremen (east of the canal)
1856
Vogelsangtown (west of canal and south of New Bremen)
1859 Lock Two (New Paris)