BHC will be open during regular hours starting Memorial Weekend.
Spring Planting After the Great Fire, Belgian Marriage Certificates and more
GREAT GREEN BAY FIRE presented by David Siegel at BHC
Sue Havel will present helpful information to research your family tree
Our June website and newsletter features will honor our Belgian Forefathers. If you would like to include a Belgian ancestor, email contact@belgianheritagecenter.org. For ideas, see our previous feature, Our Belgian Foremothers - just go the the Feature tab and scroll down to Featured Family.
A new video is now available on BHC's YouTube channel: "Women's Work" is a wonderful tribute to Belgian women just in time for Mother's Day. This video features the meaning of “Women’s Work” in the Belgian communities. In the early days, “women’s work” was all work! Be sure to subscribe to our channel - more videos will be released soon!
Two new books are now available at BHC. The Brown County Historical Society just released "The Great Fires in Wisconsin of 1871", a reprint of eye witness accounts of the fire reported by Frank Tilton in 1871 plus two modern day analyses of the fire. "When the Night Rained Fire", a new book by Virginia Feld Johnson, covers the fire and its aftermath in Kewaunee County. Books are available by visiting BHC or the Merchandise page of this website.
The Door County Library recently featured the Belgian Heritage Center as part of their Wisconsin Preservation Month program. We were able to share our short and long term plans for restoring the school and some of the challenges we will face.
You can see the video on YouTube at this link: video
Belgian Heritage Center 1255 County DK/PO Box 173 Brussels, Wisconsin 54204 920-825-7319
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