Chicago and Main Sts., Oconto, Oconto County

This church was organized June 10, 1886. The first service was held here October 31 of the same year. Seven years earlier Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, had founded the Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. Services were held elsewhere in the United States before this church was built, but it is the first edifice erected solely for this purpose. It was dedicated in February, 1887.

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[Source: McBride, Sarah Davis. History Just Ahead (Madison:WHS, 1999).]