Five Generations in the Valley: The Brandenburg Family of Red River
Some Red River families arrived for the gold rush and left when the ore ran thin. The Brandenburgs arrived in 1895, in the thick of the boom, and simply never left. Five generations later, the family name sits at the very center of town: Brandenburg Park, the green gathering place in the middle of Red River, is named for this family. That is a rare kind of landmark. Mines get named for hopeful prospectors all the time, but a town names its park for the people who stayed.
