Marker

ID: 1201 ~ Source: Carl Creason ~ Date: 2015

This file appears in: St. Mary of the Knobs Catholic Church

A stone marker commemorates the site where settlers erected a log church in 1823. It stands on St. Mary Road less than a mile from the current chapel.
Image courtesy of Carl Creason.

This file appears in: St. Mary of the Knobs Catholic Church

St. Mary of the Knobs Catholic Church

By Carl Creason, Hannah O'Daniel, Katherine Gann, Daniel Michael, and Leanna Smith

St. Mary of the Knobs Catholic Church exemplifies the enduring strength of Roman Catholicism in southern Indiana. In the 1820s, Catholic priests began visiting several families in Lafayette Township, six miles north of New Albany, to celebrate…