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Brookfield and Elm Grove
Thomas Ramstack
出版Arcadia Publishing, 2009-06-22
主題Photography / Subjects & Themes / RegionalTravel / PictorialsPhotography / Subjects & Themes / HistoricalHistory / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
ISBN143962111X9781439621110
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tSTPJEtFk3cC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.