This city park is the home to Gertie the Goose. Her picture is in the image gallery and she can be seen at the park as well. It also has a very nice playground for the kids. If the building is open when you are here - feel free to check out the additional information/displays inside. Enjoy the views of the river while here and imagine what it was like back in the 1800's to early 1900's.
Ganseviertel "Goosetown" Goosetown began forming around the flour mills, brewery, and railroad tracks circa 1870. Settlers were largely German-Bohemian Catholics of peasant stock who farmed and worked in the nearby industries. Inhabitants kept geese which were free to roam, thus the name "Goosetown" Two room houses were common. Cottage industries such as gathering clam shells for buttons from the river, and handmaking Kloppel lace developed. Water was secured from a spring-house near the corner of 8th South and Front Streets. indoor plumbing arrived in the 1930's. Fezz Fritsche's nationally known old-time Goosetown Band got its start here in the 1940's. Today only a few of the early structures survive, but the close knit neighborhood lives on. *Information taken from plaque by the Junior Pioneers of New Ulm and Vicinity, German-Bohemian Heritage Society, New Ulm Area Foundation, and the Brown County Historical Society.