The Iowa Railroad Land Company laid out the village of Breda in 1877, mostly in Wheatland Township. The area is 177 acres. William Arts, now of Carroll, built a ware house and office, and put in a small stock of groceries, which were sold by Arts. & Manemann. Clemens Knobbe built a house for a store, but it was used as a saloon. Fitch & Wade bought the business of Arts & Manemann. Clemens Bruning Opened the first general store. Breda has grown steadily, though slowly, and had in 1885 278 inhabitants. There are now three general stores, kept by Richard Ricke, Clemens Bruning and Kempker & Bruning; two hardware stores, kept by Ricke & Soat and H. J. Gnam; one drug store, kept by Jones & Albertson, and a Catholic church, built in 1878.