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Pilgrim Baptist Church, undated

Pilgrim Baptist Church (Cedar Avenue between Twelfth Street and Summit Avenue) in St. Paul, undated but between 1886 (when the congregation moved to Cedar Avenue from Sibley Street) and 1928, when the congregation moved from Cedar Avenue to 732 Central Avenue West.

Ladies Aid Society, Pilgrim Baptist Church

The members of Pilgrim Baptist Church’s Ladies Aid Society, ca. 1915.

Pilgrim Baptist Church, ca. 1910

Pilgrim Baptist Church (St. Paul), on Cedar Avenue between Twelfth Street and Summit Avenue, ca. 1910.

Rev. Robert Hickman

Rev. Robert Hickman, one of the founders of Pilgrim Baptist Church, ca. 1877.

Pilgrim Baptist Church, St. Paul, 2012

Pilgrim Baptist Church, 732 West Central Avenue, St. Paul. Photo by William Wesen, March 11, 2012.

Lac qui Parle Mission

Lac qui Parle Mission in Chippewa County was the leading station of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions’ work among Dakota people between 1835 and 1854. Though missionaries cited it as the most successful project of its kind among the Dakota, the mission failed in its objective to replace Dakota culture with European American lifeways. Throughout its existence Lac qui Parle was a multicultural community, where Dakota people and European Americans cooperated with each other but experienced deep divides.