Birthplace of Catholicism in Northern Ohio

Columbiana County · 11328 Gavers Road, Hanoverton, OH, 44423 -- St. Philip Neri Church

Side A: About a mile south in St. Paul’s Cemetery, the Reverend Father Edward J. Fenwick, “Pioneer Apostle of Ohio,” organized the first Catholic parish in northern Ohio. The first mass was celebrated in the log house of Daniel McCallister. A century and a half later the cabin was dismantled, moved here, rebuilt, and rededicated in May, 1967 as the Log Cabin Shrine of Dungannon. Side B: Same

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