This town began in 1878 and named for a river in Ireland. Became a key point for the sale of 50,000 acres of Railroad lands to Catholic colonists in Murray County through the activities of Archbishop Ireland and the Catholic Colonization . . . — — Map (db m101288) HM
On the Red River Oxcart Trail to Traverse des Sioux
1854–First white man to claim land–Bruce Pierce.
1855-56–Then; Christian, John & Andrew Anderson; Christian & Torger Peterson & the Jensens.
1862–The Applebaum home . . . — — Map (db m73506) HM
This Church Was Moved to
Farmamerica, Wasega, MN June 1987
Site of the Brighton United Methodist Church
Established in 1854 after the Rev. John Tidlund responded to the prayers of the early settlers. Services were held in homes and . . . — — Map (db m75307) HM
Organized 4 May 1866 at Magnus Peterson home, Pastor John Pehrson, by Swedish settlers, 21 charter families, 104 families by 1870. Commemorated on native stone, set in 1937.
First worship in homes, in school-house No. 26; first church built . . . — — Map (db m79770) HM
This Monument
Erected by the Bernadotte Lutheran Church in memory of pioneers who settled here by and before 1870, and who organized and became members of same. Church was organized May 4, 1866.
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The first resident . . . — — Map (db m79799) HM
The Lord our God be with us as He was with our fathers; let Him not forsake us. Kings, 8, 57.
The Norseland Lutheran Church was organized in the year of our Lord, 1858, at the home of Johannes Johnson Odegaard, located 1 mile east . . . — — Map (db m73840) HM
In this house, built by Andrew Thorson
in 1855 the early settlers met often
for worship, and the Scandian Grove
Evangelical Lutheran Church was
organized on June 13, 1858.
Dedicated to
The Memory of the Pioneers
1953
In . . . — — Map (db m78600) HM
The Reverend Stephen Riggs and his wife, Mary, arrived at Traverse des Sioux in 1843 to establish a Protestant mission for the Dakota.
He and other missionaries believed they had a duty to convert Indians to Christianity. Their efforts . . . — — Map (db m78112) HM
March, 1856 – Traverse des Sioux and St. Peter organized a cemetery Assoc. purchasing 10 acres. Early Missionaries, pioneer, and Civil War Veterans are buried here.
Rev. T. C. Williamson, first Missionary in this area and Rev. Stephen . . . — — Map (db m66414) HM
Built in 1862, during the Civil War, eight years after the founding of
Rochester (1854), the primitive "chapel" measured only 27 by 55 feet.
It was built on the original plat of bricks made in Rochester. Two lots
were given by George Head, . . . — — Map (db m147342) HM
Plotted in 1869, was named from the Chippewa word "Chengwatana" City of Pines. It was a rough lumberjack town in the early days. From here, logs were floated down the Snake River into the St. Croix River to Stillwater. A rich deposit of copper was . . . — — Map (db m44032) HM
It's very spiritual. Your own personal connection to the earth mother, to the quartzite, to the pipestone rock…The benefit of it all is you get a sense of oneness with everything here."
Travis Erickson, quarrier
You are . . . — — Map (db m119089) HM
Many people have a strong spiritual bond with this land. American Indians have used this prairie for thousands of years carrying out their spiritual traditions on what they believe is sacred ground. Each year tribal people from across the . . . — — Map (db m119088) HM
Succeeding to the lowly chapel — built of old by the river's bank — from which our fair city received its glorious name, this noble temple rises; a solemn testimony to the growth of Holy Church, a generous offering of love and gratitude . . . — — Map (db m79445) HM
To God in Unity and Trinity. The sacred, auspicious stone of this metropolitan temple, bidden to bear the name of Saint Paul, was duly laid on the second day of June, A.D. 1907.
To restore all things in Christ. — — Map (db m79448) HM
[1.] We entered a strange wilderness
[2.] We camped among Indian Nations
[3.] We trapped the land’s abundance
[4.] We labored with the Earth
[5.] We bridged great distances
[6.] Now we remember the . . . — — Map (db m76727) HM
On November 3, 1851, four Sisters
arrived in St. Paul from Carondelet,
Missouri. Their ministry began in
education and evolved to include health
care, social services and spirituality. In
the first 150 years more than 2600
Sisters . . . — — Map (db m76692) HM
In the year 1841
The Reverend Lucien Galtier
erected near this site
the Chapel of Saint Paul
from which this city
derived its name
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In 1841 and in the month of October
I caused some logs to be cut, prepared
and put . . . — — Map (db m76689) HM
Bishop of the Methodist Church in Ohio who donated a substantial portion of his estate in 1854 for the establishment of Hamline University with the following prayer: O Lord, render me cheerful in giving, happy in the hopes of doing good, and . . . — — Map (db m65933) HM
In 1923, Our Lady of Victory Chapel was built on the highest point of the College of St. Catherine campus. On the feast of Our Lady of Victory, October 7, 1924, it was dedicated by the Most Reverend Austin Dowling, Archbishop of St. Paul and . . . — — Map (db m180082) HM
This site once rose high above the surrounding land. Beginning in 1851, it was known as "Baptist Hill" because leading members of the First Baptist congregation chose it as the location for their first chapel. John Smith, the owner of the rest . . . — — Map (db m241471) HM
has been placed on the National
Register of Historic Places as a
National Historic Landmark
by the United States Department of Interior
Heritage Preservation Service
Founded February 21, 1852
First Pastor Rev. John G. . . . — — Map (db m79344) HM
"Blessed be the Lord, for He has wondrously shown His steadfast love to me when I was beset as in a besieged city." Psalm 31:21
Here in the center of the clamorous city, providing an oasis of solace, silence, mystery and artistry, is . . . — — Map (db m79343) HM
1856: The First Jewish Congregation in Minnesota
Mount Zion Hebrew Association was founded in 1856 by eight German Jewish families who came up the Mississippi from St. Louis. Joseph Ullman and Isidor Rose were in the fur business. Other . . . — — Map (db m134145) HM
Karen People in Rondo
Saw Sunshine Timothy
Many Karen families are now living in the Rondo neighborhood. The first Karen Church opened in Rondo in 2007. The majority of Karen refugees in Minnesota are Christians and so churches have . . . — — Map (db m243340) HM
Founded in 1888, St. Peter Claver Church was the first African American Catholic Church in Minnesota. The parish was created by St. Paul's African American Catholic community and an Archbishop who vowed to "blot out the color line."
Before . . . — — Map (db m207582) HM
A center of Mdewakanton Dakota community life for several generations, St. Cornelia's Episcopal Church is a symbol of Dakota continuity in the homeland from which they once were exiles. In 1987 the remains of 31 Dakota who died in an Iowa . . . — — Map (db m70182) HM
The New Avon Salem United Methodist Church, originally called the Evangelical Association, was organized May 18, 1896 during a meeting in the Louie Beyer home in New Avon Township. There were about 40 charter members and services were conducted in . . . — — Map (db m235421) HM
The Right Rev. Henry Benjamin Whipple was 37 years old when he was consecrated the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota on October 13, 1859. He spent the next 42 years establishing Episcopal parishes and missions throughout Minnesota. . . . — — Map (db m211997) HM
Bishop Whipple Bishop Whipple was elected in 1859 as the state’s first Episcopal Bishop. Enlarging Rev. Breck’s idea to have a religious university, Whipple is credited with building the Episcopal Cathedral, the Seabury Divinity . . . — — Map (db m211996) HM
Seabury Divinity School 1860 Faribault was a sanctuary for the Dakota during a most difficult time. Whipple provided protection and opportunities for education at Seabury Divinity School where Episcopal ministers found training. . . . — — Map (db m212194) HM
Near this site on June 3, 1858, in rented rooms on the second floor of a frame building, The Reverend James Lloyd Breck opened with 15 pupils a mission school which he visioned as the start of Seabury University. Although the university did not . . . — — Map (db m207678) HM
One of the earliest missionary centers of the Episcopal Church in Minnesota and believed to be the first Episcopal cathedral built in the United States, the Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour is also a monument to Henry Benjamin Whipple. Elected . . . — — Map (db m82807) HM
The Christdala Congregation was formed on July 18, 1877 by the first Swedish immigrants to settle in Rice County. The Church was built during the summer of 1878 at a cost of $230 and is maintained in memory of the early Swedish settlers. Because of . . . — — Map (db m93624) HM
On September 7, 1876 Nicolaus Gustafson, a recent immigrant from Sweden, was fatally shot by Cole Younger during the notorious Jesse James Gang's aborted raid on the Northfield bank. Gustafson had ridden into town that morning with Peter Youngquist . . . — — Map (db m93625) HM
This garden celebrates Duluth's sister city relationship with Ohara Isumi-City, Japan.
The Peace Bell
During World War II, the Japanese government instructed villages to donate metal to be melted down for ammunition. Ohara Isumi-City . . . — — Map (db m78731) HM
In 1946, Judge E. J. Ruegemer of St. Cloud, MN, who was also a leader in the Fraternal Order of the Eagles, sentenced a 16-year-old boy to memorize the Ten Commandments. This led to local chapters of the Eagles financing the construction of over . . . — — Map (db m204585) HM
Woodsmen and railroaders comprised the sparse population of the Embarrass area until the late 1800s, when a permanent community was established by Finnish immigrants. In 1905, Embarrass Township was incorporated, and the Finnish settlers began to . . . — — Map (db m127864) HM
In 1867 a New York architect sent the plans for a new church in Belle Plaine to Bishop Whipple. The church was built in 1868 on land contributed by Territorial Judge Andrew G. Chatfield, founder of Belle Plaine. The congregation organized in 1858 . . . — — Map (db m65868) HM
The first burial in this cemetery was in 1884. Remains and monuments with death dates older than 1884 were moved here from the old church yard cemetery before the current (third) church was built in 1906. The St. Wenceslaus Cemetery Chapel was . . . — — Map (db m240649) HM
These foundations mark the site of a two-story frame building erected by the Reverend Samuel W. Pond in 1847. It served as a Presbyterian mission to the Shakopee Sioux, and as Pond's home until his death in 1891. An eight-foot stockade enclosed . . . — — Map (db m19789) HM
Samuel Pond was born in Washington, Connecticut, in 1808. During his early years, he worked as a clothing merchant, a farmer, and teacher in Washington. At the age of twenty-five, he began travelling and landed in Galena, Illinois, in 1833. He . . . — — Map (db m240384) HM
This building
was erected by members of
St. Jude's Episcopal Church Congregation
The first Episcopal services were held in Henderson on February 26, 1856. The building was consecrated on July 31, 1873 by Bishop Whipple. The property was . . . — — Map (db m68178) HM
Between 1854 and 1857 many Catholics came to the United States from Germany and settled in Central Minnesota at Saint Cloud and in the Sauk Valley; their religious and educational needs were met by the Benedictines.
The Benedictine Order and . . . — — Map (db m156988) HM
1854 Father Francis X. Pierz offers first mass in this vicinity
1877 Father Leo Winter, O.S.B. erects a chapel in honor of the Assumption of B.V.M. to avert grasshopper plague
1894 June 28. Tornado destroys chapel
1951 . . . — — Map (db m78124) HM
Saint John's Abbey was founded in 1856 on the west bank of the Mississippi river in St. Cloud and was permanently located in the Indianbush, now Collegeville, on the shore of Lake Sagatagan in 1866 as the first Benedictine monastery in the Upper . . . — — Map (db m78190) HM
St. John's Abbey was founded in 1856 on the west bank of the Mississippi near St. Cloud and permanently located in the Indianbush, now Collegeville, on the shore of Lake Sagatagan in 1866. St. John's was the first Benedictine abbey in the Upper . . . — — Map (db m78128) HM
The first settlers in this area were immigrants from Luxembourg and Germany, founding Saint Wendelin's Parish Church in 1859. The town grew to include a school in 1861, post office in 1863, stores, hotel, livery, creamery, feed mill, and other . . . — — Map (db m70310) HM
Designed by its first Vicar, the Reverend George Stewart, this is the oldest church building in continuous use in Sauk Centre. Construction was begun in the spring of 1869 and completion of the $6700 structure was made possible by a $2000 gift sent . . . — — Map (db m43826) HM
This church for English-speaking Catholics, built in 1883 under the direction of the Rt. Rev. Rupert Seidenbusch, OSB, and partially destroyed by fire in 1933 was St. Cloud’s first cathedral from 1883-1937. The complex included a bishop’s . . . — — Map (db m205220) HM
Designed by well-known architect Cass Gilbert, whose elegant new state capitol building was under construction in St. Paul, this handsome English Gothic style church was consecrated by Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple on April 28, 1901. Forty-two years . . . — — Map (db m67010) HM
Established in 1859 with a membership of 40 Scandinavian settlers, the Rosendale congregation waited 50 years for this church, built in 1909. Originally called "Our Savior's", this first Lutheran congregation in Watonwan County met in members' homes . . . — — Map (db m230870) HM
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