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The Locust Plague of 1874, or the Grasshopper Plague of 1874, occurred in the summer of 1874 when hordes of Rocky Mountain locusts invaded the Great Plains in the United States and Canada. The locusts swarmed over an estimated 2,000,000 square miles (5,200,000 km 2) and caused millions of dollars' worth of damage. Residents described swarms so ...
During the grasshopper plagues of the 1870s, Assumption Chapel, also known as the Grasshopper Chapel, was built in petition for relief from the locusts. Cold Spring has three properties on the National Register of Historic Places: the John Oster House and Ferdinand Peters House, both built in 1907, and the Eugene Hermanutz House, built in 1912 ...
Outbreaks of varying severity emerged in 1828, 1838, 1846, and 1855, affecting areas throughout the West. Plagues visited Minnesota in 1856–1857 and again in 1865, and Nebraska suffered repeated infestations between 1856 and 1874. [16] 1875 cartoon by Henry Worrall showing Kansas farmers battling giant grasshoppers
The Christian pilgrimage shrine (German: Wahlfahrtsort) [15] (German: Gnadenkapelle) [16] [17] known as St. Boniface Chapel was built in 1877, similarly to the far more famous "Assumption Chapel" near Cold Spring, as a desperate petition for divine intervention from the Rocky Mountain locusts; a now extinct species of giant grasshopper, whose enormous migrating swarms blotted out the sunlight ...
As you dive into your New Year’s resolutions, taking precautions to protect yourself from a quartet of infectious diseases can lessen your odds of starting off 2025 sick.
There’s no shame in asking for Wordle assistance now and again. Before diving into the hints and solutions for the Thursday, Feb. 6 puzzle, though, let’s go over the basics of Wordle.
A 1902 scientific illustration of the Rocky Mountain locust.. According to Fr. Bruno Riss (1829–1900), a Benedictine missionary priest from Augsburg, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, the first Rocky Mountain locust plague to strike Central Minnesota began on 15 August 1856, during the preaching of a mission for the Feast of the Assumption by Father Francis Xavier Weninger inside the newly erected ...
The Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation (MFBF) is recognizing 44 recipients of the Sesquicentennial Farm award for 2024 including the Terry Gulbransen farm (1857) of rural Hayfield and Rose Creek ...