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St. Thomas More Catholic Church

St. Thomas More Catholic Church began as a small, four-room building in 1954.

Construction of a new church began in 1955 and by Christmas of the following year, the parish celebrated its first Mass in the unfinished building. The construction ...

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St. Thomas More Catholic Church

The Pensacola area has housed Catholics since its founding by the Spanish. The village of Warrington is not any different. Since the creation of the town, a large number of Catholics lived and worshipped in the area, which continued after ...

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St. Thomas' African Episcopal Church

Organized in 1792 as an outgrowth of the Free African Society, formed 1787. The original church edifice stood here. Under the ministry of the Rev. Absalom Jones (1746-1818), a former slave, this became the nation's first Black Episcopal church.

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St. Thomas Episcopal Church

This church was constructed in 1847 at a cost of $1,500 and was officially incorporated in May of 1848. Records of the parish date back to 1832.

Many of the well-known local families were early benefactors, such as Rutherford, Dekay, Price, ...

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St. Thomas Church

The Parish of St. Thomas was established by Act of Assembly Nov. 30, 1706. The first church was erected in 1708 and destroyed by forest fire in 1815. The present ediface was erected in 1819.

Marker is on Cainhoy Road (South ...

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St. Thomas' Parish Church

Successor to the 17th century Anglican Church at Mount Calvert, this cruciform, brick church was authorized in 1732 and completed in 1745 during the rectorate of John Eversfield, 1728-1780. Built by Daniel Page it served as chapel of ease for ...

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St. Thomas the Apostle Church

In 1831 Father Patrick O'Kelly came from Detroit to minister to the Irish Catholics in the Washtenaw area. He offered his first mass in Ann Arbor on July 12, 1835, in a home located on land bounded by Detroit, Kingsley ...

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St. Thomas Episcopal Church

Unintended Target

Before you, at the top of Church Street, stands St. Thomas Episcopal Church, which became an unintended target of Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s artillery on January 5-6, 1862. Jackson had led his force from Winchester, Virginia to destroy ...

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St. Thomas Church

Founded 1835

During 1861–62 the church was used as a hospital by Union troops of 39th Illinois Regiment Volunteers, 5th Connecticut Regiment Volunteers, 46th Pennsylvania Regiment Volunteers, and 28th New York Regiment Volunteers, under Colonel Williams. Their batteries were placed around ...

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