Saturday, October 22, 2005
On this Day in Wisconsin
1835 - Missionary and Settler Alfred Brunson Arrives in Prairie du Chien. Brunson, a Methodist preacher from Connecticut, rode alone on horseback from Pennsylvania. He built a parish that spanned from Rock Island, IL, through Prairie du Chien, to St.Paul, MN and spent his life traveling from town to...
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