Bremen (Kentucky)

Bremen
Bremen Location in Kentucky
Basic data
State :	United States
State :	Kentucky
County :	Muhlenberg County
Coordinates :	37 ° 22 ′  N , 87 ° 13 ′  W Coordinates: 37 ° 22 ′  N , 87 ° 13 ′  W
Time zone :	Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents :	365 (as of 2000)
Height :	140 m
Postal code :	42325
Area code :	+1 270
FIPS :	21-09406
GNIS ID :	0487858

Bremen is a town in the US state of Kentucky that had 365 inhabitants in 2000. It is located in Muhlenberg County and consisted of 164 households. It goes back to immigrants who named the settlement after the German city of Bremen .

Reverend Samuel Danner came to the county around 1800. He was a Dunkard preacher born in 1784 who died on July 7, 1857 in Bremen. There was a congregation of German Baptists there.

The first post office was built around 1825 and moved to Bennetsville around 1860, from which Bremen emerged. Andrew and Peter Shaver came to the region around 20 years after the county was established. Peter Shaver, whose father Andreas Schaber emigrated from Bremen after the American War of Independence , got the place named after his father's place of birth. Peter Shaver had fought with his father in the British-American War from 1812 to 1815, in which the father was killed. He married Nancy Peters on November 30, 1815, with whom he lived for at least 50 years; he himself worked as a teacher. Peter Shaver's brothers John, Jonathan and David had also come to Muhlenberg County between 1820 and 1825, but left the area around 1840. The region was known at the time as The Dutch Settlement , but within a few generations the German language and culture were lost .

James R. Gross, who took part in the Civil War , left diary-like notes; Isaac Miller was another participant in the war from Bremen. To the south of Bremen, drills took place on the Gish Old Field . Even before that time, the first public school was built, one of six in the county.

The region was known for its tobacco companies, four or five of which existed, including one in Bremen. Production peaked between 1892 and 1898, when the four companies produced more than a million pounds a year. Thomas C. Summers owned a large house in Bremen.

Before the First World War , the place had 75 inhabitants. The Black Lake swamps were drained. There was a Presbyterian Institute in Bremen .

literature

• Otto Arthur Rothert: A History of Muhlenberg County (Kentucky) , 1913, reprinted in Heritage Books 2007.

Remarks

1. ↑ Otto Arthur Rothert: A History of Muhlenberg County (Kentucky), 1913, p. 25, note 11.
2. ^ Otto Arthur Rothert: A History of Muhlenberg County (Kentucky), 1913, p. 25.
3. ^ Otto Arthur Rothert: A History of Muhlenberg County (Kentucky), 1913, p. 382.
4. ^ Otto Arthur Rothert: A History of Muhlenberg County (Kentucky), 1913, p. 417.
5. ^ Otto Arthur Rothert: A History of Muhlenberg County (Kentucky), 1913, p. 418.