St. Francis

ID: 1110
This file appears in: Catholic Pioneers

The Catholic church not only established centers for worship, they also promoted schools. Shown here is St. Francis School in Dayton, Kentucky. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Catholic Pioneers

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #913 in Marion County notes the location of the first Catholic church west of the Allegheny Mountains. Kentucky’s earliest settlers came from the states of the mid-Atlantic…