Historic Area Churches Celebrate 175 years
Historic Area Churches Celebrate 175 years
ROB BOWE
CONTRIBUTOR
Two churches in the land between the marshes are celebrating their 175th anniversaries in October. St. Theresa’s Parish in Theresa and St. Andrew-The Apostle in LeRoy (Lomira) were founded in 1849 by a Bavarian missionary, Rev. Charles Francis Xavier Schraudenbach, who arrived at Milwaukee in December 1845. By 1848, Schraudenbach