St. Columba Mission

St. Columba Mission was an Ojibwe community on Gull Lake in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States, about 11 miles (18 km) north of Fort Ripley. It centered on the first Native American Christian church in the United States west of the Mississippi River, founded by the Episcopal missionary James Lloyd Breck and Enmegahbowh, who served as deacon. The squared log church was completed in 1853 and consecrated by Bishop Jackson Kemper.[1] Chief Fine-Day took over leadership of the mission in 1861.

The village that grew up around the church included a school and a store. All of it was burned to the ground in the Dakota War of 1862. No visible trace remains, but the site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places[2] and a historic marker was placed nearby on Minnesota State Highway 371.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Holcombe, Theodore Isaac (1903). An Apostle of the Wilderness: James Lloyd Breck, D.D., His Missions and His Schools. T. Whittaker. pp. 97–99. THE MARRIAGE OF DR. BRECK: On All Saints' Day, 1852, the corner-stone of the church of St. Columba, at Gull Lake, was laid...
  2. ↑ Nord, Mary Ann (2003). The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 0-87351-448-3.
  3. ↑ Minnesota Historical Records Survey Project (1940). Guide to historic markers erected by the State Highway Department cooperating with the Minnesota Historical Society. St. Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Historical Society. p. 31.
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