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“A little church was built on the st side of the Iowa river in 1885 and dedicated to Saint Ambrose. By 1902 the parish had grown to […] families, and Confirmation was first administered in Iowa Falls in 1903. In 1905 Father Convery directed the…

“When Father Patrick Burke was appointed pastor of Independence to succeed Father Gosker in 1878, he planned a church for Jesup congregation. It was built in 1880 and dedicated to Saint Athanasius. That year Father Peter O’Dowd succeeded Father Burke…

“Catholics residing southwest of Dubuque, in Mosalem and Table Mound Townships, were organized into a parish in 1872 by Father Thomas J. O’Reilly, a priest of the Cathedral in Dubuque. Father Samuel Mazzuchelli and Bishop Mathias Loras had celebrated…

“During Father Kelly’s pastorate the people of Forest City also decided to build a church. Just before the church was completed, Father James P. Taken was appointed pastor of Forest City and Lake Mills with his residence in Forest City. Father Taken…

“Immaculate Conception Parish came into existence early in the history of the archdiocese because the town of Lansing in northeast Iowa was an important trading and shipping center on the great waterway of the Mississippi. The Catholics in that area…

“Before building a frame church in 1887, the Catholics of La Porte City in Black Hawk County gathered for monthly Mass in the home of Peter Trost whenever Father Thomas F. O’Brien visited them from his Eagle Center Parish. These pioneers built a…

“Father Patrick F. Farrelly was appointed to Saint Rose Parish in 1876 or 1877, he became their first resident pastor in 1877. Father Byrne directed the building of a two-story frame school in 1882, a long building with only one room on each floor.…

A man in a suit and hat is sitting atop a large chunk of rock that has likely fallen off the bluff behind him.

The snow-covered street at 12th and White has houses on the left side of the street and a church, likely today's St. John Evangelical Lutheran, on the right. There is a woman by the front of a house and a white horse pulling a load down the middle of…

A street and the houses alongside it are piled high with snowy.