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