The story of this historic site is an amazing one, beginning with a Catholic priest caught in a terrible storm. Hiding under his horse's saddle, he prayed for survival, promising to build a church on the site if his life was spared. He survived and in 1871 he built the church. When a second storm destroyed the wooden church, parishioners built a stone structure in 1881, which was used until a much larger church was completed in 1907. But the forces of nature continued to plague Greenbush, and in 1982 lightning struck St. Aloysius Church and destroyed it. Today its grand stone ruins remain as a haunting piece of Greenbush history. A steadfast group of parishioners has kept alive the story of St. Aloysius and has built a pavilion nearby and moved a one-room schoolhouse to the site.