Jan Rabbers News Today

Berend Hendrik Scholten was a pioneer farmer. Like many of his neighbors in Graafschap, he grew crops.

Over the next few weeks, we'll celebrate some of the Holland area’s early female entrepreneurs.

On Christmas Eve 1956, fire destroyed the Wooden Shoe Factory and Wooden Shoe Restaurant, newly relocated along the U.S.-31 bypass at 16th Street. But rebuilding didnt take long.

The Wooden Shoe Factory was, for decades, one of the most visited businesses in Holland. Learn more about the Van Tongeren family and how the tradition began.

Van Koevering brothers Adrian and William were a photography and printing team, helping one another to keep their businesses successful.

Cornelius De Roo was born in 1855 in Holland, Michigan, to Cornelius De Roo, Sr. and Elizabeth Vander Meulen De Roo, daughter of Cornelius Vander Meulen, the pastor who co-founded the colony of Zeeland with Jannes Van de Luyster.

Jannes Van de Luyster, born in 1789, was a wealthy farmer from the western part of the Netherlands.

Jan Rabbers was ambitious. He was born in 1811. He and his wife, Cornelia Kolvoord Rabbers, and family led one of at least four early groups that emigrated from the Netherlands in 1847.