[1][2] In the mid-1840s and 50s, immigrants from Germany and Bohemia (now western Czech Republic) settled on the high ground in the Blue Joint Marsh to farm.

Richard Perrin considered this rare surviving log church important enough to include in his book The Architecture of Wisconsin.

Framed pictures of the Stations of the Cross hang high on the walls, with a wrought-iron candle-holder beneath each.

[3] In years since, the Blue Joint Marsh has largely dried up, but St. Wenceslaus still sits on the high ground, with some of its founders buried in the cemetery nearby.

It survives very much as in the 1800s, thanks to its small congregation, its proximity to St. Joseph's in Waterloo, its closing over a hundred years ago, and the faithful work of volunteers.