This self-guided tour of St. James at Sag Bridge Cemetery is a two-part walking tour of the historic cemetery that includes a map, a general history of the cemetery and church and descriptions of a selection of people and their tombstones in the eight-acre cemetery. Each part takes about an hour to complete. The historic significance of the church, built in the 1850s, and the cemetery, first used in the 1830s during the building of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, stems from their association with the workers who built the canal who were largely Irish and later settled in the area of the canal. The church and cemetery were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 16, 1984.