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National Register adds Oregon Trail swales near Bremen
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Art Pacha stands beside a marker placed by the Kanza Chapter of the Oregon-California Trails Association to mark the deepest of the swales. The pasture has never been plowed, leaving the swales in almost pristine condition.
From Art and Lorene Pacha’s front yard near Bremen a narrow two-track winds west past the barn, dips into a low depression at the inlet to a lozenge-shaped pond and hooks almost due south into an upland pasture. The ground is higher here, offering views of the house and outbuildings across the frozen pond, a clump of barren trees crowding the southern shore and a series of impressions bisecting…
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