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Nieuwveen
The drainage and the rebuilding

In 1846

Nieuwveen too has a cholera epidemic to endure. Eighty people die of it, a tenth of the population.

Provenance This comes from the series J.J. Roovers set down up to 1970. The wording here is this site’s own. View the source

On this spot

Nieuwveen (village centre)

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1878

On 20 January 1878

A great fire strikes the village. On what is now the A.H. Kooistrastraat and in the Kerkstraat, two substantial farms, a café and some ten houses are lost, and with them a large part of the municipal archive.

The drainage and the rebuilding fire disaster From the typed document