The Bronnenberg House

German immigrant Frederick Bronnenberg arrived in this area with his wife, Barbara, and several children in 1821 while traveling to Illinois, but when one of the oxen in their team gave out nearby, the family decided to make their home here in Madison County. Frederick and Barbara Bronnenberg had twelve children. Their second eldest son, Frederick Jr., married Hulda Tree in 1840 and began this home, now one of Madison County's oldest dwellings. Its limestone foundation is thought to have been quarried from the nearby White River, its bricks were handmade and fired here for the fourteen-inch-thick interior and exterior walls, and its woodwork is large tulip tree harvested from the property. Much of the land near the park's entrance and in the picnic area was once pastures and fields of grain. The site is included in the National Register of Historic Places.

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