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New Lutheran bishop learned about community from Flatville's 'Cathedral in the Cornfields'
The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. via Yahoo News· 12 months agoJun. 11—FLATVILLE — In 1874, teenager Theis Busboom left his home in the swampy northwest German town of Ostfriesland and, with his three brothers and parents, made the harrowing trip to East ...
How old is your church? Our timeline tracks 251, from 1826 to present
The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMay 16—Four score and 117 years ago, when Abe Lincoln was just a gangly teen, a group of early settlers met in a log cabin in the future Vermilion County to establish what would become the area's ...