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Click on picture to read the article from the Wadena Pioneer Journal printed in 1981.

Messiah Luthern's Origin, Sweedish families clear land for Balsamlund, and Gospel Heirs Fellowship

Southbrook Baptist Church and Immanuel congregation

First Meeting of Assembly of God Church, Wadena Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and Bluegrass Bethany free Lutheran Church

First Congregational church, Bible Missionary Church, and Seventh Day Adventist Church

Catholicism in Wadena began in 1876 in Compton Township

Episcopal Church, United Methodist Church of Wadena, and North Germany Zion Lutheran Church

Christian Missionary Alliance once called "Glory Barn" and Zion Free Lutheran had roots in Bluegrass in 1895

St. John Lutheran Church organized in 1914, Evangelical Church History, and Jehova's Witnesses

Picture of St. Ann's Church, Rectory, School in the early 1900s

Picture of St. Ann's first communion class on June 11, 1911