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National Register of Historic Places.
The Perkins Congregational Church
Society was organized in 1900 and
completed construction of their building
in 1901. It was formed by settlers of mixed
ethnicities including English, German,
Scandinavian (Danish), and Dutch.
Located at 31205 409th St., it is listed
in the National Register as significant
locally for architecture. The building
represents early churches constructed
in the late Gothic Revival style in Bon
Homme County. The church has a wood
frame, clapboard siding, lancet-arch
wood windows, and a central steeple
entrance. The Perkins church was “yoked”
to the larger Congregational church in
Springfield. Both churches were part of a
circuit with the Congregational churches
at Springfield, Perkins, Tyndall, Running
Water, Leyden, and Kingsburg in various
combinations over the years. In 1904, Bon
Homme County had eleven established
Congregational church societies, including
the Perkins congregation. The frame
church was the first and only church built
in the hamlet of
Perkins. In the year
1904 a small church
was organized west
of Perkins in what
was known as the
Dahlenburg School,
under the name
of Lyden church, a
name given by Mrs.
Woudsma’s husband,
after a town in his
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native country, Holland. Mrs. Woudsma was a charter member of the
Lyden Ladies Aid and later joined the church when it was reorganized
as the Perkins Lyden Congregational church and was an active worker
in the group.
In 1923, the Leyden congregation merged with Perkins, changing
the name of the church to the Perkins Leyden Congregational Church.
By 1942, the small Perkins Leyden congregation had disbanded, and
the Congregational Church Building Association sold the Perkins
Leyden Church building and its property to the Bethlehem Norwegian
Evangelical Lutheran congregation, which disbanded in 1968.
The history of the village of Perkins began in 1897, when Captain
Leach of Running Water purchased three acres of land from Fred
Perkins. Leach opened The Peoples Store, which contained a post
office, cooperative creamery, and feed store. Perkins later also included
a school, Modern Woodmen of America Hall, machine shop, pool hall,
creamery and a blacksmith shop. The development of better roads and
larger stores in nearby communities led to local farmers shopping out
of town, causing the decline of the village.
After our tour of the church Jeff walked us over to the abandoned
home still standing and full of belongings, not having been lived in
for some time the cobwebs were thick and in the kitchen where the
sink was, it was filled with dishes and silverware and the cobwebs
blanketed even encasing the items creating a mummified look. Each
time I enter an abandoned home that still has almost all the belongings
still present from furniture to photos, Knick-knacks, toys, clothes, so
many personal items the same questions always come back to me.
Why would anyone leave everything they have behind? And what
happened to the person or family that once lived here? It can be a earie
feeling when I enter and start to look around, but in each instance
I always focus on what I need to capture to document where we’ve
been and these abandoned locations before they are completely gone
and in hopes of telling a story for others to enjoy and even for future
generation to see.
Think of all the memories that make up your life story: secrets
shared with siblings; back yard barbeques; family vacations; your
first car, first date, first kiss; building a career or a business; saving
for that first home; raising children of your own….the list goes on
and on. Preserving those stories can be a tremendous gift for future
generations that helps bring richness and depth to your family’s
history. What better way is there to celebrate life than to capture the
story of how we got here? n
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