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The first white resident of the hill was a hermit named François Soubrio. [6] Around 1862, an area farmer found him living on the hill. Soubrio had heard about the hill when he was working as an assistant to a retired professor in Quebec, Canada. He had found an old French diary and map dated 1676 showing a cone-shaped mountain in Wisconsin.
November 4, 1993 (Roughly, Central Ave. from Depot St. to Third St. Marshfield: Includes many old brick businesses like the Thomas House Hotel built after the fire of 1887, the Romanesque Revival old city hall built in 1901, the Craftsman-styled Wisconsin Central depot built in 1910, and the eclectic-styled Hotel Charles built in 1925, which hosted JFK, Patsy Cline, and possibly John Dillinger.
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In 1846, Catholic residents of Beloit, Wisconsin, founded St. Thomas the Apostle Parish, the first parish in that city. [10] Wisconsin achieved statehood in 1848. That same year, the first Catholic church in Madison, St. Raphael, was founded. [11] Pope Pius IX established the Diocese of Lacrosse and the Diocese of Green Bay in 1868. [6]
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St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church located in Port Washington, Wisconsin. [1] Its congregation is part of the parish of St. John XXIII in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. [2] The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 for its architectural and religious significance. [1] [3]
The Cathedral of St. Joseph the Workman is the mother church of the Diocese of La Crosse. The cathedral, designed by architect Edward J. Schulte, was completed in 1962. [1] Built of limestone, it has a tall clock tower which rises above the surrounding buildings in downtown La Crosse, Wisconsin. [2]
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