The old town of Brookfield provides an ethnic microcosm of what makes Wisconsins settlement story so unique. As Native Americans; primarily the Potawatomi tribe; were forced out of the region; in came large numbers of Protestant farmers from New York State. A step and a half behind the New Yorkers came distinct colonies of families from western Europe--Catholics from near Nuremberg; Bavaria; Evangelical Lutherans from Canton Bern; Switzerland; Methodists from Lincolnshire; England; Zion Evangelicals from Sulzback; Wuuml;rttemberg; as well as Catholics from County Sligo; Ireland.
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