“Grasshopper Cross”

404
1966
Union

(Note: any text in italics has been taken from the official SDSHS records.)

Marker Text

The second rude cross erected on that miraculous day in May, 1876, when Father Pierre Boucher led his pilgrimage of Catholics & Protestants on an eleven mile trek seeking Divine Intervention in the grasshopper plague, was where you see the large white wooden cross a few rods south. Their prayers were answered, the grasshoppers up and left.

Location

Union County, west of Elk Point

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