Learning From the Past: An Adventure in Farm History, Part 2

Reader Contribution by Joy Lominska
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This is Part Two of a four-part series, read the beginning on how the author began tracing the history of her farm.  

Immigration Stories: The Bruchmillers Come to Kansas

August Otto Bruchmüller and Augusta Henrietta Fredericka Sparr were born in Prussian villages on either side of the Oder River. Otto was born in 1843 in Zehden, now Cedynia in western Poland,

on the east side of the Oder. The name Bruchmüller means a miller of grain, living in or near the marsh. Zehden is on a hill overlooking low flat fields along the river. Frederick the Great actually drained the nearby Oderbruch marsh, creating arable fields, called polders, where once there was water. The low-lying areas had been home to malaria, and there were frequent floods.

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