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Danes In Polk County, Wisconsin, A. Bobjerg Jan 1993

Danes In Polk County, Wisconsin, A. Bobjerg

The Bridge

In the year 1863 Morten Christian Pedersen left Sindbjerg Parish north of Vejle (Denmark) for America. He was 28 years old and unmarried. In the following year he remained mainly in Neenah, Wisconsin, where a number of Danes lived. He had conceived the idea of finding a place where it would be possible for people of small means to found a Danish settlement. That dream would not leave him, nor would he let go of the dream; but he took a good look around before he chose a place.


Three Churches At West Denmark, Edwin Pedersen Jan 1992

Three Churches At West Denmark, Edwin Pedersen

The Bridge

Not many congregations know the heartbreak of losing two churches and a parsonage to fire in less than fifty years, or have in their congregation two members who can remember the building of three churches; but so it is at West Denmark, Wisconsin.