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The Boys of the Summer of ’42

The Pilots of the Flying Coffins of World War II In 1933, Adolf Hitler was declared Chancellor of Germany and ... Read the full story »

Published on July 1, 2019

Category: History

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The Telephone Genius

How John Zietlow built a multimillion-dollar telecommunication company in Aberdeen John L.W. Zietlow was born in Greotzien, Germany, on December ... Read the full story »

Published on May 1, 2019

Category: Businesses

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The Ghost Towns of Brown County

Area settlements that vanished In this issue, we’ll look at the late-blooming towns in the Brown County area that sprang ... Read the full story »

Published on January 3, 2019

Category: Early History

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Make or Break Before a State

Early towns that were established in Brown County and survived In past issues, we looked at the city of Columbia, ... Read the full story »

Published on November 1, 2018

Category: Early History

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High Hopes and Big Dreams

Early homesteaders who took a chance on building a community and lost By the 1870s, the railroads were the cash ... Read the full story »

Published on August 31, 2018

Category: History

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The History of Columbia

Homesteads, Railroads, and Change in Brown County’s first city In 1862, the Homestead Act was passed into law by Congress, ... Read the full story »

Published on July 3, 2018

Category: Early History

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Trading on the James

In our previous two issues we heard about the lives of Waneta and Drifting Goose, two prominent Sioux Chiefs who ... Read the full story »

Published on April 30, 2018

Category: Early History

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Chief Drifting Goose

Learning to Live in a New World In the previous issue of Aberdeen Magazine we learned about Sioux Chief Waneta ... Read the full story »

Published on January 1, 2018

Category: History

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Waneta: The Very Important Sioux

Before any settlers arrived and before Aberdeen was a city, all of the United States was Indian territory. Many stories ... Read the full story »

Published on November 1, 2017

Category: Early History