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Grasshopper Chapel

Cold Spring, MN

This small hilltop chapel commemorates the region's devastating nineteenth-century grasshopper plagues and the community's religious response to them. The current granite chapel preserves an unusual intersection of agricultural disaster, local memory and pilgrimage.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: christcatholic.com/parishes/assumption-chapel/

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