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In 1835, just west of this site, Hippolyte Grignon, the first white settler in what was to become Appleton, built a log house known as White Heron with two attached wings for a trading post and quarters for travelers. Within the walls of the log house, Father Florimond Bonduel, a Belgian priest, celebrated the first mass in the Appleton region in 1848.
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