Posts from Koester House Museum & Gardens
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COUNTDOWN TO 150 -- Courtship by Earl ShreckegastCOUNTDOWN TO 150—Courtship Charles Koester and Sylvia Broughten were married on July 25, 1876. How did they meet? Was it love at first s...
countdown to 150 -- Sylvia's Roots by Earl ShreckengastWe all have family history. We know that Charles Koester and his family emigrated from Hesse-Cassel, Germany in 1851. Charles was 11 whe...
COOUNTDDOWN TO 150 -- Sylvia's Treasured Belongings he Koester House Museum & Gardens is fortunate to have many of the Koester family’s treasured belongings. Some of them are from Sylvia B...
COUNTDOWN TO 150 -- Sylvia, the teacherSylvia Broughten and her sister Lucy came to Marysville in 1871. They came to live with their brother, John Broughten, who was a Marysvi...
COUNTDOWN TO 150 -- Sylvia's Early Years Charles Koester’s future wife, Sylvia Constance Broughten, was born on February 14, 1848. Her parents, Eliza Webster and James E. Brough...
December 23, 2025 Blog -- Christmas Traditions Carried O... RECOLLECTIONS OF CHRISTMASES IN THE 1950s AND 1960s by Sarah Koester Morrison When cousin Jane (Julia King Muller), her brother, my brot...
IF THIS HOUSE COULD TALK -- Blog Post #34 -- Christmas E... Christmas was a family affair for Charles’ family. The holidays were spent with the Schmidts (Charles’ sister Jane’s family) and the Bro...
IF THIS HOUSE COULD TALK - Blog Post #33 - First Christmas Christmas in 1883 was a sad one for Charles. It was his first Christmas without his wife Sylvia who died in April of consumption. Things...
IF THIS HOUSE COULD TALK—Blog Post #32—Decorating for Ch... Christmas always was festive here. In addition to the usual flowers and plants already here, evergreens were placed in the bay windows a...
IF THIS HOUSE COULD TALK -- Blog Post #31-- Cigar anyone?I bet a lot of people don’t know that the building across 10th Street from me once was the Pusch Cigar Factory. While tobacco wasn’t a d...
If This House Could Talk -- Blog post #30 -- City of LightsWithin four months of the passage of Bill 86 in May 1888 by the Marysville City Council, Charles had electric lights installed here. Tha...
If This House Could Talk - Blog Post #29 - I remember that there was quite a bit of excitement when the electric lights were turned on Saturday night, August 25, 1888. Over 3,000 ...
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