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OCONTO COUNTY
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
.St. Joseph of the Lake
Catholic Church.
and Cemetery Little Oconto - South Branch St. Joseph Church Road at St. Joseph Lake Menominee County original built 1875 rebuilt in 1891
St. Joseph
of the Lake Catholic Church
A church was erected at Little
Oconto, later South Branch, in 1875 by the
Indians and some skilled white carpenters. After a few years this
church was inadequate and in 1891 a second, larger church was built.
The congregation was Native American families and 18 white families
from How and Breed townships in Oconto County. Cathe
Ziereisnow a Keshena mission church Prior to 1907, Catholics in this area (town of How) went to a variety of parishes which included St. Mary in Shawano (Shawano County), St. Michael Church in Keshina (Menominee County), and to the St Joseph of the Lake mission church in "Little Oconto" now called South Branch, where there is also a small Catholic Cemetery (now Menominee County). |
