Church of the Holy Apostles (Oneida, Wisconsin)

They hoped she would "send them some to teach them Religion and establish traffic amongst them, that they might be able to purchase a coat and not to go to Church in bear skins."

After removing from New York in the 1820s, the Oneida Indians settled and built a log church building in 1825 in the vicinity of Duck Creek, about 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Green Bay.

Norman Nash was appointed as an official missionary for the area around Green Bay, but did not arrive until 1825.

The building was to be in the early English style, with low massive walls, heavy buttresses, and a steep roof.

On July 17, 1920 the stone church was struck by lightning and destroyed by the fire, but then rebuilt on the old foundations and re-consecrated by the Rt.

The church bell, dedicated to the "Glory of God in pious memory of John Henry Hobart, Bishop of New York" was re-cast after the fire.

The Episcopal Mission was part of Oneida Reservation land held in trust by the United States and continued as such under the various land permutations until title was transferred by the United States to the Trustees of the Diocese of Fond du Lac by an Act of Congress through a patent deed in 1909.

Classified Digest of the Records of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts: 1701-1892 (With Much Supplementary Information), Fifth Edition.

Compiled Under The Direction of The Bishop, in Commemoration of its FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY Bloomfield, Julia Keen (1907).