Immaculate Conception (Gilbertville, Iowa)

Immaculate Conception (Gilbertville, Iowa)

"Immaculate Conception Parish began with the town of Gilbertville, which was then called Knox. Several young men, pleased with the banks of the Red Cedar River in Black Hawk County south of Waterloo, laid out the town site in 1854. The Catholic settlers built a small church, put together from the cast-off slabs of a local sawmill. It was probably there when Bishop Mathias Loras visited the town and was prompted to purchase forty areas for $50 in 1855, as a receipt in the Archdiocesan Archives shows."

- Kurt, Rev. Msgr. Edgar, Parish Profile #23, The Witness, May 10, 1987

Immaculate Conception Parish, Gilbertville

The Archdiocese of Dubuque.
The Center for Dubuque History at Loras College.

Loras College
Kucera Center for Catholic Thought
Frank and Ida Goedken Series: "Spiritual Life in the Upper Mississippi River Valley"

Burback, Emily. Burns, Daniel. Gibson, Michael. Oberfoell, Carol. Waldmeir, Helen. Waldmeir, John.

English.

Various primary and secondary sources.

1857-
History of the parish over the span of 162 years, including information about its priests and parishioners.

Annual History (7 documents)

Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Dubuque Warranty Deeds (3 documents)

Census 1914 (1 document)

Centennial (1 document)

Correspondence Rev. Ziegler (1 document)

Cremmer Letter and History (2 documents)

Golden Jubilee 1925 Booklet (3 documents)

Harvesting Our Potential: A Northeast Iowa Rural Women’s Conference with Public Hearings (1 document)

History (1 collection, 6 documents)

Letter 1914, 1912, 1913, 1928 Nemmers and Sullivan (3 documents)

Pastor Cards (1 set)

Witness Publishing Letter (1 document)

Morris, Adam. “Gilbertville parishioners take pride in renovation,” Waterloo Courier/The Witness, 16 January 2005.

“Personal growth program voted in by Dubuque priests,” Dubuque: The Witness, Vol. LXIV NO. 44, 6 January 1985.