Zoar Norwegian Lutheran Church - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com

I found this church on a very foggy December day heading for Pickerel Lake to do some caching. The thick fog made this church seem just a bit to spooky and I looked around and took pictures and left quickly.

This church was put on the National Historic Places Register because its one of a very few remaining country churches in the surrounding region.
Zoar Church is located in Kosciusko Township which is the site of a migration of Polish homesteaders. They made up the vast majority of the population of this township. In the midst of this Polish community a group of Norwegian Americans established their own small community NE of Pickerel Lake. Norwegians ae the largest single european ethnic group to migrate to SD but in this township they were the minority. The chief social focus of this Norwegian community was Zoar Lutheran Church.

Street address: 7 mi. E, 5 mi. N of Grenville Grenville, SD United States County / Borough / Parish: Day Year listed: 1990 Historic (Areas of) Significance: Event Periods of significance: 1900-1924, 1925-1949 Historic function: Religion Current function: appears to be empty Privately owned?: yes Primary Web Site: [Web Link] Season start / Season finish: Not listed Hours of operation: Not listed Secondary Website 1: Not listed Secondary Website 2: Not listed National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed

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