Windhorst

Windhorst is a small community centered around a huge Catholic church: Immaculate Heart of Mary. It was founded in the late 1870s by German immigrants who had been promised that the Santa Fe Railroad would build a spur down to the settlement. That promise never materialized, but the church that they started served the community for more than a century, and the school was also a cornerstone of the community for several decades. 

Not much remains besides the church and the Holy Cross Cemetery. There's also a stone monument with lists of each graduating class from the school. We spent a long time in the cemetery and high school graduation memorials, following the threads of life and death that wove these people together for generations.