Grasshopper Cross
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2.3 Miles The first cross erected that day in May, 1876, when Father Pierre Boucher led his pilgrimage of Catholics and Protestants on an eleven mile trek seeking Divine Intervention in the grasshopper plague, was two miles west of Jefferson. Their prayers were answered and the grasshoppers left that miraculous day.
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