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“Jesuit Missionaries, on their way from Montreal, Canada, to post Vincennes, visited Lagro as early as 1800. The venerable missionary, Father Badin, stopped there, in 1833, on his way from Fort Wayne to Logansport. The construction of the Wabash and Erie Canal, in 1837, opened up a general traffic, and Lagro became the chief shipping center for wheat, corn and other crops. A number of families, of whom many were Irish Catholic, came from the east to make Lagro and its vicinity their home.

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