St. Mary's Church

St. Mary's Church is a Pennsylvania historical marker in McKean County, dedicated 1985.

Newell Creek Rd. (T-388) at church, 1+ mile off PA 155 NE of Turtlepoint

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Parish organized 1847 at Sartwell in the "Irish Settlement," originally formed 1842-60. Log church built 1848; present one completed 1871. Resident pastor long served Roman Catholics throughout McKean and Potter counties, and this was the "mother church" of those at Port Alleghany, Bradford, Smethport, Eldred, Duke Center, and Costello. It later became a mission of St. Raphael's at Eldred.

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1827 · Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1830 · New York (A. Finley, 1830) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1836 · State of New York (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1848 · Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1872 · Warren, McKean, Potter, Forest, Elk, Cameron counties. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Pennsylvania, 1848, covering the location of St. Mary's Church, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Pennsylvania, 1848, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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St. Mary's Church

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