A few weeks ago, we visited a Pioneer Village, about thirty miles north of Milwaukee. The weather was great and the log cabin homes , various shops, a school and a barn are well maintained and open to the public. Most of the buildings are also furnished.
One small building of interest is common in the rural areas around Quebec Province, Canada. It is a small chapel, built in the 1840s and dedicated to St. Apollinaris. I learned, St Apollinaris was one of the first bishops and a martyr of the early Catholic church.
Generally, in Canada, two of these chapels were built along a main road, flanking the local parish church. Perhaps German communities shared this tradition with the French?
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