History
Castle Grove Township was organized in 1855. [1] The area used to have a Catholic Church, Immaculate Conception Catholic Church,however, the church now sits empty, there is a cemetery next to the building, and just up the street is the Lutheran Cemetery. As of the early 2000s, most of the congregation of Immaculate Conception had started to attend Mass in nearby Monticello, and the church was used solely for weddings, funerals, and on December 8 for the feast day of the Immaculate Conception. These Masses also eventually ceased, and by the mid 2000s, the church was no longer in use.The church remained an Oratory until 2010 and the property was sold a year later. The church now sits abandoned. The diocese still owns the adjacent cemetery. The parish itself dated back to 1854 and the current building was built in 1877, after the previous church was maliciously burned down on the night it was completed, prior to that, a log church had been built and dedicated to St. Aloysius Gonzaga, the parish namesake was changed to honor the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which was approved by the Catholic Church in 1854.
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