913 Catholic Pioneers

Category: Markers

Marker reads, Basil Hayden, Sr., led 25 Maryland Catholic families to settle near here, on Pottingers Creek, 1785. Father Whelan said first Mass in Kentucky here in 1787. First Catholic church west of Alleghenies built here in 1792. First monks, 1805, Trappist Fathers Cistercians. Present church erected in 1823, under direction of famous Belgian missionary, Charles Nerinckx.