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Wahoo, Czech Presbyterian Church

After centuries of political and religious oppression in Czechoslovakia, Austrian Emperor Joseph II issued the Patent of Toleration, which allowed Czech Protestants to organize their own Evangelical Reformed Church in Bohemia and Moravia. Immigrants from these churches began to arrive in Nebraska in the 1870s and 80s. The church now known as the Czech Presbyterian in Wahoo was originally called Cesko-moravsky reformovany evanjelicky Spolek, and was organized January 8, 1882. Land for the cemetery was purchased earlier from Burlington Railroad before the church was built. The price was $220 for forty acres in 1879. Transfer of the forty acres was made to the Cesko Moravsky Reform Brethren Church in 1886.

11"H x 14"W


Price:$200.00