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Mogren Hill; Gol (1870) and Hauge (1872)

Kenyon Cemetery and the stone churches

The village buried its dead on the hill and the townships built their churches in stone.

Kenyon Cemetery lies on Mogren Hill at the edge of the city; the city owns and maintains it, and a plat map is posted on cityofkenyon.gov. In the county's parcel records it is one of the exempt public parcels, and the Goodhue County GIS carries a separate KenyonCemetery layer of its lots.

The countryside built earlier and more solidly. The 1878 county history records "Gol's Church" of the Holden Congregation, a stone building on section 5 of Kenyon Township seating 600 people, erected in 1870 under the Rev. B. J. Muus of Wanamingo, the patriarch of the county's Norwegian Lutheran churches; and "Kenyon Church" of Hauge's Synod, a stone building on section 8 seating 400, built in 1872. C. L. Brusletten, the postmaster-legislator, is buried at Gol. Holden Lutheran and Hauge Lutheran are still active congregations in the townships, and Dale, Aspelund Emmanuel and Holden churches appear in the directory.

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