Saint Joseph Church and Shrine
From Wikipedia The church traces its origins to its founding as a missionary church in 1854 by the area's earliest Irish settlers. Irish Catholics had trickled into the area beginning in the 1830s, and they met in private homes for occasional mass. By 1852, a large enough number were in the area that a church was needed, and Humphrey and Ann Agan and Martin Kelly deeded the site on which this church stands to the Bishop of Detroit. Work on the church itself commenced in 1854, and continued on and off until 1862.
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