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| | The Polish Churches of Duluth, Minnesota |
 | | As late as the 1890's, the residents of Gnesen and Rice Lake Townships were almost exclusively Polish in nationality. |
 | | In 1881, tired of commuting up to Gnesen for church festivities, baptism, marriages, funerals, 100-140 Polish families formed a local branch of the St. Stanislaus Kostka Society, a Polish-American fraternal organization, and bought two lots and in 1883, built the first St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish in downtown Duluth. |
 | | Lepak was a son of Martin Lepak, one of the original founders of the Town of Gnesen in 1869 and the person who donated the land for St. Joseph's Church in that community. |
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