St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church
On July 9, 1793, at 3:00 P.M. there arrived in the port of Baltimore at Fells Point a ship, The Guineaman, carrying blacks, slave and free, from Santo Domingo. They were French speaking and Catholic. They formed a Eucharistic community that would become known at the time time the emancipation as the Parish of St. Francis Xavier - the first black Catholic parish in the United States of America.
Marker is at the intersection of North Caroline Street and East Oliver Street, on the right when traveling north on North Caroline Street.
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