Erickson’s (Moorhead) Brewery. Engraving, ca. 1883. From The Valley of the Red River of the North: A Pamphlet (Cleveland: Moorhead Board of Trade, 1883): 43.
The European immigrants who moved into southwestern Minnesota in the mid-1800s brought their religious faiths with them. The founders of Immanuel Baptist Church in Westbrook (Cottonwood County) moved into the first church building erected in the village after the members of that original congregation moved on to other areas, leaving the building vacant.