Church of the Immaculate Conception, Quinnesec

Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Quinnesec, Breitung Township, Menominee County (later Dickinson County), Michigan, ca. 1880: The church of the Immaculate Conception was already under construction in Quinnesec when The Menominee Range, the first newspaper in what is now Dickinson County, mentioned it in an item in the columns of its first issue on March 19, 1879. This photograph, said to be taken in 1880, shows damage caused by lightning. The cross on top of the steeple was destroyed, part of the louvers was blown out of the bell tower and the front of the church and steps were damaged. The church was repaired and in use until destroyed by the Quinnesec fire in 1906. [Alice (Massie) Riekkola]