Trivia Night 2013 raised $1598
Cornice Club (paint campaign) 2012 raised $15,280 href=”http://gustavekoerner.org/cornice.jpg”>/a>
Civil War Descendant Project 2003-2011 raised $1250.
Read synopses of these soldiers’ pension files: Henry Briesacher Christian Briesacher Friedrich Henry George Kerber Herman Schmenk Nicolaus Schmidt Henry Scheuermann.
Trivia Night 2011 raised $6321
200th Birthday Celebration 2009 raised $20,000 Read about it
November 20-21, 2009, we observed Gustave Koerner’s 200th birthday. It was also a family reunion for Koerner-Engelmann descendants. Koerner Rombauer, founder of Rombauer Vineyards of St. Helena, California, and his family attended the dinner at Bellecourt Place in downtown Belleville. A special Koerner House cake was one of the highlights of the evening.

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Part of the entertainment was a fencing demonstration put on by members of the Boy Scouts of America.

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Wolfgang Stueken, at right, a German researcher who provided exhaustive background on Koerner’s years in his native land, took the birthday party as an occasion to present a special gift to the Koerner House Committee. It was an original copy of a letter from a leading German politician to Gustave Koerner which Wolfgang found in a New York bookstore.

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Mary Armstrong of Michigan, a contributor to Koerner family research also attended. Irma Rombauer, who married a grandson of Augusta Koerner, Gustave and Sophie’s daughter, wrote the “Joy of Cooking” cookbook. A Rombauer Vineyards wine bottle, a cookbook and the Koerner House cake made a nice memory of the birthday dinner.

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The next day the descendants visited Walnut Hill Cemetery to plant a tree at the Koerner family plot. Thanks to all descendants and presenters at the dinner for making it a memorable evening. Here the Koerner Rombauer family poses after planting a memorial tree at the Koerner family burial plot on November 21, 2009.
Window Campaign 2009 raised $37,500.00
Sophie’s Tea 2008 raised $1200.00 Visions of Old Belleville Art Auction and Sale 2007 raised $11,527.00 Trivia Night 2007 raised $4100.00
Sophie’s Tea 2006 raised $2000.00
Trivia Night 2006 raised $3500.00
Civil War Era Band Concert and Benefit Dinner 2005 raised $7714.00 Belle of the Milkmaid Contest 2005 raised $22,000 >
Sophie’s Tea 2005 raised $2000.00
Old Belleville Day 2005 – An Awareness Event
Gov. Koerner Birthday Gala 2003 raised $17,030
Koerner House Concert 2003 raised $1650
St. Nicholas Cotillion 2002 raised $20,000