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grown, soon found itself in need of a larger and more spacious
church. On June 24, 1873, it was therefore decided that a new
church should be built, which would be big enough to hold all
the people professing the Evangelical Lutheran faith that lived
in the settlement. There was at first some talk of building the
new church of stone or of brick; but when further consideration
showed that this would be too expensive it was decided that it
should be built of lumber. The construction of the church was
begun in 1875 and was completed in 1877, after two years of
work. The church cost about $6,000 and is eighty feet long,
fifty feet wide, and twenty feet high on the sides. It has a
gabled roof and is equipped with a gallery sixteen feet wide, as
well as seats for six hundred persons. The steeple is eighty-six
feet high. The plans were made by Seymour in Stillwater, and
the work was done by A. P. Jonson. The church was dedicated
to its sacred purpose on the 29th of October, 1877, by Rev. E.
Norelius, president of the Minnesota Conference.
On this occasion the conference held its meeting here, which
accounts for the fact that the impressive ceremonies were attended
by a great number of people, not only from the Marine settlement,
but also from nearby settlements, such as Stillwater and
Swede Lake.
The present deacons of the church are John P. Törnblad,
Sven Anderson from Fish Lake, John Ekegren, And. Lind,
Abraham Larson, and Gustaf Sjösten. The trustees are Johannes
Ericson and A. W. Johnson. The recording secretary at the
parish meetings was the organist Johan P. Törnblad. In 1875
the congregation was divided into the following seven districts:
no. 1, Prairie Hollow; no. 2, St. Croix; no. 3, Vasa; no. 4, Hay
Creek; no. 5, Fish Lake; no. 6, Goose Lake; and no. 7, Bony
Lake. This division still prevails. According to the church
records, the country congregation has about 825 members, of
which about 400 are communicants. The number of communicants
has increased between thirty and forty annually during
later years.
Within the settlement there is also a Swedish Methodist
congregation, consisting of about twenty families. They have
their own church in the neighborhood of Long Lake, in section
26, not far from the first Lutheran church, which was built in
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