35 years ago, Erdmann Schmocker a Swiss-born architect living in the US did a bit of traveling through the States. Occasionally he’d come across towns named Bern or Lucerne. Being a native of Canton Bern in Switzerland, his curiosity got the better of him. He just had to know how many other Berns were out there.
It became his passion and three and half decades later, Erhard Schmocker’s passion has culminated in the Helvetica Map which lists over 4000 Swiss place names (and counting) in the US. The map is by no means completed. There is, as they say, much ground to be covered. Plus, as Mr. Schmocker puts it “I only can put so many names on the map …”. In the meantime, we caught up with Mr. Schmocker to tap into his exhaustive knowledge of Swiss Settlements in the US.
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35 years ago, Erdmann Schmocker a Swiss-born architect living in the US did a bit of traveling through the States. Occasionally he’d come across towns named Bern or Lucerne. Being a native of Canton Bern in Switzerland, his curiosity got the better of him. He just had to know how many other Berns were out there.
