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In the background of the image is a bridge that is going over a creek or small river. On the right side of the photograph is a tall, brick building. It is noted on the photograph, being the mill. The mill sits above the creek/river on a small dirt…

Sacred Heart Church, Holy Spirit Parish, located on the corner of 22nd Street and Windsor Avenue in Dubuque. This is a brick church on the right of the photo. There are two steeples with crosses at the top: the left steeple is shorter than the right.…

"While Father Garrett T. Nagle was pastor of Saint Boniface Parish in Garner from 1893 to 1903 and a missionary to a large area, he visited the Catholics of Woden in Hancock County about every month. Mass was usually celebrated in the home of John…

“The citizens of the community first sought to build a parish church in 1885 and subscribed $1,305. Of the 85 subscribers on the March 5, 1885, list about forty were not Catholic. In 1887 Father Peter O’Dowd, the Independence pastor, came to Walker…

“Sacred Heart Church, Volga, was built in 1899 under the direction of Father James Mulligan, during the time he was pastor of West Union, Wadena, and Fayette. The first Mass was celebrated in the church on Easter, April 2, and the church formally…

"When there were enough Catholics settled in and around the town of St. Anthony, they built a church in the town in 1893 and named it for the Sacred Heart. Father John McMahon became the first resident pastor of St. Anthony and celebrated the first…

"When Father Kelly left in 1887, Father Lawrence H. Burns came to stay for 27 years. He directed the building of a much larger church in 1893, dedicated to the Sacred Heart in November 1893 by Bishop Joseph B. Cotter of Winona, Minnesota. In 1897…

"Irish settlers in the eastern part of Chickasaw County gathered for Mass in homes until the small community was able to organize a parish in 1856 and build the first church in the county in 1857. Although the church was named for Saint Ignatius, it…

"The first Catholic settlers came in the 1860s. The Irish attended Saint James Church at Toronto in Clinton County, which had a resident priest. The Bohemians went to Holy Trinity Church in Baldwin, where a visiting Bohemian priest celebrated Mass…