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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO52_site-of-the-first-norwegian-evangelical-lutheran-church-of-roche-a-cri_Arkdale-WI.html
In 1850, a group of Norwegian settlers from Koshkonong, the foremost Norwegian settlement colony in the United States at the time, left their southern Wisconsin home and migrated north, settling here in "Roch-a-Cree" or Roche-a-Cri. Imbued with pi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4NL_monroe-cemetery_Arkdale-WI.html
Ira and Ransom Gleason, father and uncle to Charlotte and Francis Marion Rous set aside the original acre of land for this cemetery, from the land they obtained through the Public Lands Act of 1820. This plaque in memory of Edna Rous Russell and H…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4J4_east-arkdale-cemetery_Arkdale-WI.html
On July 11, 1859, Mr. Halvor Olson offered this 1/2 acre of his land to be used as a cemetery for the members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (Hauge Synod) here in the Roche a Cree (Arkdale) settlement. People of the community outside the congr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2J3_west-church_Arkdale-WI.html
In 1853, Norwegian immigrants to this area, organized the Norwegian Evangelical Church of Roche-a-Cri, in 1860. A log church was constructed one mile south of this location. It was destroyed by fire in 1866. A frame church was then erected on this…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2J2_lutheran-church-of-the-norwegian-synod_Arkdale-WI.html
On this site once stood a Lutheran Church of the Norwegian Synod, from the years 1887 to 1921. This church developed because of a disagreement on some doctrinal points with the United Lutheran Church which stood one half mile south of here. Bec…
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