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More historic than 88% of U.S. towns · #294 of 758 in New York. What drives it
2 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 8 buildings. Below: maps from 1911 on and the census since 1850.
New Bremen dates its founding to 1826 (Wikipedia’s history). The census first counted it in 1850.
More historic than 88% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, New Bremen is more historic than 88% of U.S. towns, #294 of 758 in New York. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its share of homes from before 1940 ranks highest and its National Register listings lowest.
New York towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical New York town has 12.3 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so New Bremen’s 43.1 sits above most of its state (67% of New York towns have fewer) while its 12 historic buildings outnumber those of 77% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: Wikipedia (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how New Bremen’s history is told.
New Bremen had its own post office from 1848 to 1989. Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyFrom Wikipedia’s history of New Bremen.
The first settlement was c. 1798. Many later settlers were from Germany. The community of New Bremen was laid out in 1826 by Charles Dayan.
The town of New Bremen was formed in 1848 from parts of the towns of Croghan and Watson.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention New Bremen, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The village of New Bremen (or Dayanville) has a Methodist church, a twostory school house, and a small amount of local business in the way of stores, blacksmith shops, etc., and some thirty dwellings, but its nearness to Lowville has prevented it from becoming much of a place for business or trade. The
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ing ground.* We are not informed precisely upon which side of Beaver river this location was, and it may have been in the town of New Bremen. M. St. Michel arrived in New York in November, 1798, and undertook the improvement of a tract of i ,200 acres owned by three daughters of Mr. Lambot, and
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of New Bremen. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of New Bremen.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Between 1,510 and 2,722 people in every census since 1850.
17 censuses, 1850–2010.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on New Bremen’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in New Bremen itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1826, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. New Bremen’s post office opened in 1833, and the census of 1850 counted 1,510 people here.
New Bremen is more historic than 88% of U.S. towns, #294 of 758 in New York. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
Two places: the Moser Farm (listed 2010) and the Lowville & Beaver River Railroad Historic District (2024).
25% of New Bremen’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.9 points), against a typical 27% for a New York town; the median home was built in 1980.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
