BARTLETT — Today is going to be a special day at Peter Limmer & Sons in Intervale They’ll be holding an open house to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the arrival of bootmaker Peter Limmer Sr. and family at Ellis Island in New York from Bavaria, Germany, on April 17, 1926.

They settled in Jamaica Plain, Mass., to be with family. In 1927, Peter founded his own shoemaking company, with the family living upstairs. They moved to Intervale in 1950 — but we’ll get to that later on.

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