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The old town of Brookfield provides an ethnic microcosm of what makes Wisconsins settlement story so unique. As Native Americans, primarily the Potawatomi tribe, were forced out of the region, in came large numbers of Protestant farmers from New York State. A step and a half behind the New Yorkers came distinct colonies of families from western EuropeCatholics from near Nuremberg, Bavaria; Evangelical Lutherans from Canton Bern, Switzerland; Methodists from Lincolnshire, England; Zion Evangelicals from Sulzback, Wrttemberg; as well as Catholics from County Sligo, Ireland.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

The people whose images appear in this work provide an ethnic microcosm of what makes Wisconsin's settlement story so unique. As Native Americans, primarily the Potawatomi tribe, were forced out of the region, in came large numbers of Protestant farmers from New York State. A step and a half behind the New Yorkers arrived distinct colonies of families from Western Europe--Bavarians, Würtembergers, Irish, English, Swiss, Welsh, Scots, and other European states. Peer into the faces as well as the dress presented in these outstanding photographs and see the early ethnic flavor of Wisconsin jump out at you.

Book's by Thomas Ramstack

Brookfield and Elm Grove

Brookfield and Elm Grove

List of Persons, Residents of the State of Wisconsin, reported as Deserters from the Military or Naval Service of the United States

List of Persons, Residents of the State of Wisconsin, reported as Deserters from the Military or Naval Service of the United States

Looking Into Our Grandparent's Immigrant Eyes

Looking Into Our Grandparent's Immigrant Eyes

Brookfield and Elm Grove

Brookfield and Elm Grove

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