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DeSmet, Father Pierre Jean
Jesuit Priets
Died 5/23/1873

This Iowa boulder, bearing a bronze tablet, marks the spot near Broadway and Union street where Father De Smet established his first mission in the upper Missouri river valley.

Father Pierre-Jean De Smet, Jesuit priest, who established the upper Missouri river valley's first church in a blockhouse on the present site of Council Bluffs.
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