Minnesota Valley Funeral Home New Ulm Mn (2024)

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In 1854, a group from the Chicago Land Society selected the site for settlement. The name New Ulm was chosen for the region because many of the original settlers hailed from Ulm, Wurttemburg, Germany.

The first German settler-colonizers were joined in 1856 by a larger German colonization society from Cincinnati, Ohio, affiliated with the progressive Turner movement. Their town of New Ulm was incorporated in 1857; it was named for the city of Ulm in Württemberg, Germany, the home region of many of the immigrants.

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A Tale of Two Cities

Surviving the 1862 Sioux Indian uprising is an amazing story in itself, but the events which led to the establishment of strong “Sister City” ties with Ulm and Neu-Ulm, Germany are even more astonishing.

The name, New Ulm, was selected because many of the original settlers were from the Province of Wurttemberg, Germany, of which Ulm is the principal city. In 1856 Wilhelm Pfaender arrived in New Ulm with members of the Turner Colonization Society of Cincinnati.

New Ulm, Minnesota, located 90 miles southwest of the Twin Cities, was proclaimed by results of the 2000 Census as “the most German town in America.” Many residents trace their German ancestors back through generations in this city settled largely by German immigrants in the nineteenth century.

New Ulm Reviews. New Ulm is a very safe town with a great culture. There are many festivities throughout the year, many of which are put on by Scheels Brewery. It is a small town so there is very little noise besides the trains and you can get around town in a quick manner.

The name "New Ulm" was chosen because many of the colonists came from the City of Ulm in Wurtemberg Province, Germany. In February, 1855, the Territorial Legislature established Brown County, an area formerly in Blue Earth County.

Overall a very safe city, New Ulm's crime rate is just 2 per 1,000 people, which means that a person's chance of becoming a victim in New Ulm is one in 610.

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Most of the time, if an obituary is available online, you will be able to find it with a Google search. However, if you still fail to see the results you want, consider looking through the websites of local funeral homes or newspapers. Unfortunately, you may have to pay to access content in a local online paper.

To be clear, obituaries are protected by copyright. They are creative works of expression that are fixed into a tangible medium of expression. Both the text and the images that make up an obituary are protected by copyright (even if the facts and information are not).

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