Mike McCafferty
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 more »
Published on July 1, 2019
Category: History
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 more »
Published on May 1, 2019
Category: Businesses
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 more »
Published on January 3, 2019
Category: Early History
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 more »
Published on November 1, 2018
Category: Early History
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 more »
Published on August 31, 2018
Category: History
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 more »
Published on July 3, 2018
Category: Early History
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 more »
Published on April 30, 2018
Category: Early History
Chief Drifting Goose
Learning to Live in a New World In the previous issue of Aberdeen Magazine we learned about Sioux Chief Waneta… Read more »
Published on January 1, 2018
Category: History
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 more »
Published on November 1, 2017
Category: Early History