On Sunday, October 21, 1849, a pastor eleven months ordained drove through the woods and prairie of St. Clair County, Illinois, to see the first church in Centreville, now Millstadt, dedicated. His letter to Der Lutheraner, read a hundred and seventy-seven years later to the day.
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On Sunday, July 21, 1861, the
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Sometime in 1845, in a print
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