St. Mary's Catholic Church
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Marker No: 4468
Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker
National Register of Historic Places
Geographic: 29.850109,-96,679237
Location: From Ellinger, take FM 2503 northeast about 2 mile, then go 1/2 mile east on CR 250.
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Marker Text: In the 1850s, families of German and Czech origin in the Ross Prairie area were served by visiting priests. After 1855, they worshiped in a log church (2mi.N) named Saint Joseph, the first permanent Catholic Church in Fayette County. The first permanent Catholic Church in Fayette County. The church moved to Live Oak Hill about 1861, and purchased this site near the settlement in 1864. The first resident priest arrived in 1872, and a larger church structure, named Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (St. Mary's), was built in 1879, after it burned in 1905, this Gothic styled church was built here--now called Hostyn Hill--in 1906. (1986)
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