9088 Clayton Ave., Menasha, Winnebago County

Near here is the "lost cemetery" of Saint Malachy Catholic Church (1849-1857), a mission church of log construction that served the local Irish community and Catholic Indians. Irish immigrants had come to Menasha to build dams, locks, and canals on the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway, later settling on land-grant farms west of Menasha.

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