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St. Marys Historic District is a national historic district located at St. Marys in Elk County, Pennsylvania. It includes 399 contributing buildings, two contributing sites, one contributing structure, and five contributing objects. It encompasses the historic central business district, adjacent residential district, and St. Joseph's Convent ...
St. Marys is a city in Elk County, Pennsylvania, United States.The population is 12,738 as of the 2020 census. [2] Originally a small town inhabited by mostly Bavarian Roman Catholics, it was founded December 8, 1842.
St. Mary's Church, St. Mary the Virgin's Church, St. Mary Church, Saint Mary Church, or other variations on the name, is a commonly used name for specific churches of various Christian denominations. Notable uses of the term may refer to:
Springfield Friends Meetinghouse built in 1850 Springfield Friends Meetinghouse in Henry Graham Ashmead's "History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania," 1862. The Springfield Friends Meetinghouse is a Quaker meeting house that is located at 1001 Old Sproul Road in Springfield Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.
In 1757, a larger church was built on the site of Old Saint Joseph's in Willings Alley; but six years later, Old St. Mary's was erected on a site which included room for a Catholic cemetery. [2] St. Mary's and Old St. Joseph's remained a single parish until 1830.
St. Mary's Church remained in use by the new parish for a few years but closed in 2004 when operations were consolidated at St. Augustine. In 2007, the former St. Mary's buildings were purchased by the Catholic Cemeteries Association, which administers the adjacent St. Mary Cemetery. The church building was converted into a chapel for the ...
Episcopal worship in the area began in the spring of 1875, when the Rev. E. Folsom Baker, rector of St. Paul’s Church in East Springfield, began holding occasional services. An official mission in Springfield Center was not established until 1889, and the cornerstone for the new church was laid on September 21. [2]
After the opening of the new church building in 1912, the previous wooden building was converted into a parochial school. [2] The school, which eventually moved into a larger building behind the current church, operated until the end of the 2010–2011 school year when it was merged with Saint John the Evangelist Regional Catholic School, also in Uniontown.