According to legend, in 1869 Father Phillip Colleton was caught at this site in a furious hail and thunderstorm, took refuge under his saddle, and vowed that if his life was spared he would build a church on this spot. That promise led to the establishment of St. Aloysius, Greenbush. The first Catholic church erected in Crawford County was a wooden frame structure completed in 1871 on the historic Mission Road, but it was destroyed by a storm in 1877. Parishioners quarried limestone from Hickory Creek and completed the second church in 1881. The first resident pastor, Father F. M. Verdan, arrived in 1882 and served the church for fifty years. A larger church was completed in 1907, and the 1881 church was converted into a community building. This third church stood for 75 years as a landmark before lightning struck it and it burned in 1982. The ruins remain. The 1881 church was then renovated into a place of worship, becoming the fourth church on March 9, 1986, and it served the people until it closed in 1993. Father Colleton's promise continued.