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St. Clement's Island State Park

St. Clement's Island State Park is a Maryland state park on St. Clement's Island, an uninhabited Potomac River island lying one-half mile southeast of Colton's Point, St. Mary's County, Maryland. The park features a 40-foot stone cross dedicated to the beginnings of freedom of religion in the United States as well as a reconstruction of the historic Blakistone Island Light. It is the central feature of the St. Clement's Island Historic District that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. History The park preserves the site of the March 23, 1634, landing of Maryland's first colonists, who had sailed from Cowes on the Isle of Wight in England four months earlier. On March 25, the colonists celebrated a mass of thanksgiving for their safe arrival and this date is commemorated annually as Maryland Day. The island was a convenient, temporary base of operations for the 150 settlers as they negotiated with the Yaocomico Native Americans for land for a permanent settlement. They named the island in honor of Pope Clement I, patron saint of mariners. It was the site of the first Roman Catholic Mass celebrated in the British-American colonies, said by Jesuit Father Andrew White. The island measured "not above 400 acres" at the time of the settlers' landing, according to White's account of the journey. Five years later, in 1639, the Surveyor General measured the island and found that it was about 80 acres. It formed part of St. Clement's Manor, which was granted by the Second Lord Baltimore to Thomas Gerard in 1639. Gerard subsequently became a major landholder and political figure in Maryland and Virginia. After the island became the property of Gerard's daughter Elizabeth, the wife of Nehemiah Blackistone, it became known as Blackistone Island. After the Blackistone family took ownership in 1669, the island remained in the family for 162 years. It was taken over by the US Navy in 1919, at which time a landing strip and piers were built and the island's buildings and trees were removed. In 1962, the property was designated as a state park when it was leased from the Federal government and its name reverted to St. Clement's Island. The name change was made official by the Board of Geographic Names in 1965. Features The island's 40-foot stone cross was erected in 1934 in celebration of Maryland's 300th anniversary, recognizing the location as one of the foundation sites of religious toleration in the United States. A replica of the Blakistone Island Light was completed in 2008 through the efforts of the St. Clement's Hundred community organization. The original lighthouse occupied the island from 1851 until 1956 when it was destroyed by fire. Activities and amenities The island is only accessible by private boat or via a water taxi that operates seasonally from the St. Clement's Island Museum in Colton's Point. Activities on the island include hiking, picnicking, fishing, and hunting. References External links St. Clement's Island State Park Maryland Department of Natural Resources St. Clement's Island Historic District, St. Mary's County, including photo from 2002, at Maryland Historical Trust
St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church (Baltimore)

St. Elizabeth of Hungary was a historic Roman Catholic church complex located within the Archdiocese of Baltimore in the Baltimore-Linwood neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Description The complex developed over the period 1895–1926, and consists of four buildings: a two-story, gable-fronted brick structure erected in 1895 as the original church, parish hall, and rectory; a large stone Romanesque church building constructed in 1912; a three-story convent built in 1922; and a large three-story parochial school which was added to the site in 1926. The complex occupies a city block directly opposite Patterson Park. In 1931, the St. Elizabeth School had the largest student enrollment, 1,500 students, in the archdiocese. The church was founded to serve the German immigrant community in Baltimore. St. Elizabeth of Hungary was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. St. Elizabeth is now permanently closed. References External links St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Baltimore City, including photo from 1994, at Maryland Historical Trust Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore
St. Ignatius Church (Forest Hill, Maryland)

St. Ignatius Church is a historic Roman Catholic Church located at Forest Hill, Harford County, Maryland. It is a rubble stone, one-story rectangular structure of five bays, with a tall tower at the west end and a rubble stone two-story rectangular addition. The original 35 feet by 50 feet church was built between 1786 and 1792. History A major addition was made in 1848 and the tower was added in 1865. The parish hall wing was constructed in 1822 and a small frame sacristy was added in 1887. It is the oldest extant church in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Notable burials William M. Ady (died 1872), member of the Maryland House of Delegates George W. Richardson (died 1930), member of the Maryland House of Delegates Thomas H. Robinson (1859–1930), member of Maryland Senate and Attorney General of Maryland William Grason Scott (died 1882), member of the Maryland House of Delegates References External links Media related to St. Ignatius Church (Hickory, Maryland) at Wikimedia Commons St. Ignatius Church, Harford County, including photo from 1973, at Maryland Historical Trust St. Ignatius Catholic Church, 533 East Jarrettsville Road, Hickory, Harford, MD at the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)
St. James the Less Roman Catholic Church

St. James the Less Roman Catholic Church, also known as St. James and St. John's Roman Catholic Church, is a historic Catholic church located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States and was one of the earliest neighborhood parishes established in the central city (1833). The building later became Urban Bible Fellowship Church. On March 29, 2020 lightning struck the steeple, causing the building to catch fire and partially collapse. History St. James the Less was built by Bishop James Whitfield, at his personal expense. He laid the cornerstone in May 1833 and consecrated the church a year later. Bishop Whitfield died the following October. In 1966, the neighbouring parish of St. John the Evangelist was closed, and the new parish of St. James and St. John, was formed, the congregation worshipping at St. James. The parish was dissolved around 1986, and the former St. James Church was sold to an evangelical church. Following this, the church was stripped of its windows, altars, marble communion rail, pipe organ, and other artifacts. It was also whitewashed, destroying its historic murals. St. James the Less Roman Catholic Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. On the morning of March 28, 2020, the church had a devastating fire that resulted in the destruction of the steeple of the church. Description The church is an early work of George A. Frederick (1842-1924), a prolific and prominent architect in Baltimore who designed various buildings in the city including the Baltimore City Hall in 1875. It is a High Victorian Gothic influenced brick structure with Romanesque Revival overtones built 1865-67. It has a tall central tower and featured an ornate interior with marble sculpture and murals. The church is 184 feet long, 65 feet wide, and the ceiling is 51 feet from the floor. The steeple, at 256 feet, is the second tallest church tower in the city (next to First and Franklin Street Presbyterian Church at West Madison Street and Park Avenue, in Mount Vernon-Belveere neighborhood, constructed 1875) and dominates Old East Baltimore. The cross surmounting the spire is 10 feet tall. The largest of the four bells in the tower weighs 5000 pounds and was cast by McShane of Baltimore in 1885. The tower clock was installed during the same year. The 25 foot-high Mayer windows were installed in 1891. The interior features three large interior murals painted about 1886 by the German-born artist William Lamprecht and marble sculpture work by the Baltimore sculptor Joseph Martin Sudsburg. References External links St. James the Less Roman Catholic Church, Baltimore City, including photo from 2004, at Maryland Historical Trust
St. John's Church (Ruxton, Maryland)

St. John's Church is a historic A.U.M.P. church located in Ruxton, Baltimore County, Maryland. History J. Aquila Scott, a free African-American, moved to the Bare Hills area in the 1820s, and in 1833, was named among the five trustees of a small congregation of the Bethel Episcopal Methodist Religious Society in a deed from Mary and Elijah Fishpaw. The deed was for three quarters of an acre of land in the northeast corner of the Hopyard tract on which to build a cemetery and Methodist church. The local African-American congregation, which had been meeting at Scott's home, established a parsonage and built a log cabin church on the plot. Architecture The original log church burned in 1876. The current structure was completed in 1886 by Rev. Edward W. Scott, son of Aquila Scott, and is a frame Carpenter Gothic-style gable-roofed structure with board-and-batten siding, stylized lancet windows and decorative detailing. According to its National Register listing, "St. John's Church is particularly important as an exceptional example of African American church building in the late 19th century." For many years, the church was the center of spiritual life for the local African-American population, including those in Bare Hills and those working as live-in servants in Ruxton. Attendance at the church declined in the 1960s, and the property was closed and largely forgotten until 1980, when Ruxton resident Gail B. O'Donovan discovered the chapel while researching a zoning issue. She rallied the community to raise $108,000 for the restoration of the church and a 1+1⁄2-story stuccoed stone house on the property, believed to date from about 1835, which was used as a parsonage and had suffered significant fire damage. Also on the property are a simple frame rectangular social hall built in 1886 by Rev. Edward W. Scott and an extensive burial ground behind the church. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 15, 1982, reference number 82002807. Gallery References
St. John's Episcopal Church (Baltimore)

St. John's Episcopal Church, also known as St John's in the Village, is a nineteenth-century Episcopal church building on Old York Road (off Greenmount Avenue and 31st Street) in the former village of Huntingdon (now the community of Waverly) in northeast Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The church closed in April of 2023. The congregation was often referred to as "St. John's of Huntingdon Episcopal Church". It is a Gothic Revival structure built originally in 1847. Also on the property is a cemetery. The church reported 143 members in 2015 and 72 members in 2023; no membership statistics were reported in 2024 parochial reports. Plate and pledge income reported for the congregation in 2024 was $0.00 with average Sunday attendance (ASA) of zero persons. St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. References External links St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church, Baltimore City, including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust Saint John's in the Village website Saint John’s in the Village – Explore Baltimore Heritage
St. John's Lutheran Church (Hagerstown, Maryland)

St. John's Lutheran Church, founded in 1770, is a historic Lutheran church located at 141 South Potomac Street in the South end of the arts and entertainment district of Hagerstown, Maryland. History In 1769, Jonathan Hager, proprietor of Elizabeth Town (later renamed Hagerstown), deeded lots 131 and 132 to the trustees of the Lutheran congregation for the building of a house of worship. The cornerstone for a log church was laid in 1769 and the congregation was organized in 1770 under the pastorate of the Reverend Charles Frederick Wildbahn. Owing to the congregation's rapid growth, construction began on the present brick structure in 1795, completed in 1806. St. John's Church was extensively renovated in 1870. Originally, the sanctuary was two stories in height with galleries. During the renovations, the church was completely divided into two stories, with sunday school rooms on the first floor and the sanctuary on the second. To access the second-floor sanctuary, two staircases were built, one on either side of the bell tower. The church was again renovated in 1900 when the former lecture hall which stood next to the church was raised in order to extend the chancel of the church. This addition exhibits Romanesque characteristics, differing from the late-Georgian appearance of the older sections of the building. In the first decade of the twentieth century, further improvements included the addition of four Tiffany stained glass windows, including the "Rabboni" window over the altar, and the installation of two large mosaic panels in the apse of the chancel, depicting the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Crucifixion, and the Ascension. A separate sunday school building was constructed on the church campus in 1921. In 1969, a lightning bolt struck the bell tower, igniting a fire which destroyed the room and ceiling over the church. Rebuilding commenced and was completed within a year to celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of the church's organization. Architecture The 1795-1806 brick structure of the church represents late Georgian design characteristics, notably the symmetrical placement of window and door openings, the use of round-headed arches over the upper windows, and the use of Flemish bond brickwork. The side walls of the church, including the elevation which fronts South Potomac Street, are accented by shallow pilasters and corbeled brick cornices. The 1900 chancel extension, located at the south end of the church, displays Romanesque design with paired-Roman arches. The interior of the nave is covered by a barrel-vaulted ceiling and is lit by five large stained glass windows on each side. The chancel dado is paneled and covered by a rib vaulted ceiling over the three-sided apse. The vaults are decorated by frescoes. The first and third panels of the apse are covered with mosaic panels, framing the central panel which contains a stained glass window. Gallery References External links Official website National Register of Historic Places Registration Form A History of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Church Institutional History)
St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church (Silver Spring, Maryland)

Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church is a parish of the Catholic Church in Maryland in the United States founded by Fr. John Carroll in 1774. It falls under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Washington and its archbishop. It is named after John the Evangelist. History The community has existed for well over 200 years. In 1774, the first chapel was built on land owned by Carroll's mother. Carroll worked as a missionary in Maryland and Virginia. Carroll moved to Baltimore in late 1786, and the parish was attended by Jesuit missionaries until 1813. The parish currently owns two separate church buildings, known as the "Main" or "New Church" located at 10103 Georgia Ave Silver Spring, Maryland, and the "Historic" or "Old Church" located at 9700 Rosensteel Ave. Forest Glen, Maryland, built in 1894. The main church, designed by Johnson & Boutin, was built in 1962. The "historic" church is currently used by St. John the Evangelist. The pastor is Rev. Joseph Calis. Our Lady Queen of Poland - St. Maximillian Kolbe Parish. The pastor of Our Lady Queen of Poland and St. Maximillian Kolbe is Fr. Jerzy Frydrych of the Society of Christ. The church/school community offers First Communion, Sunday School, grades Pre-Kindergarten through 8, and reconciliation. The current principal of the school is Caitlin Keeton. Across from the school, there is also a convent that consists of nuns who are Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (I.H.M.). In Cardinal James Gibbons' speech at the laying of the cornerstone of the old church at Forest Glen, he stated that St. John the Evangelist was "...the Bethlehem of the church in America..." with the understood metaphor of Baltimore being the Jerusalem. Personnel Pastor: Rev. Joseph Calis Gallery References External links Saint John the Evangelist parish Saint John the Evangelist school
St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church (Baltimore)

St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church, now known as Sweet Prospect Baptist Church, is a former Catholic located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Description Designed by Niernsee & Neilson, it is an 1855-1856 Italianate-influenced masonry structure constructed of stuccoed brick walls resting on a rubble stone foundation. The exterior features twin square towers flanking the main façade and a semi-octagonal apse flanked by one-story pavilions on the back. There are three portal arches in the center section of the main façade, several steps above the sidewalk. It is the most intact remaining example of an Italianate public edifice in Baltimore. Under instructions from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, the final mass was held at the Church of St. John the Evangelist, on June 26, 1966, and the congregation merged with that of St. James the Less Roman Catholic Church, just two block away. The church then became the New Central Social Hall. Most of the interior decorative artwork and accessories associated with church use were removed. St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. References External links Media related to Sweet Prospect Baptist Church at Wikimedia Commons St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church, Baltimore City, including photo from 1980, at Maryland Historical Trust Maryland Historical Society website Sweet Prospect Baptist Church website
St. Leo's Church (Baltimore)

St. Leo's Church is a historic Roman Catholic church complex located within the Archdiocese of Baltimore in Little Italy, Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is the 'core' of the neighborhood. Description The church was built in 1880-81 of brick with stone trim, and combines Italianate, Romanesque, and Classical elements. It features a high entrance porch, a turret with conical roof on the north wall, a square bell tower at the northeast corner, a large rose window in the main façade, and a variety of decorative brickwork. It was the first church in Maryland, and among the first in the nation, founded and built specifically for Italian immigrants. The church was designed by Baltimore architect E. Francis Baldwin. St. Leo's Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It houses an 1881 historic Niemann pipe organ. The organ was played in recital during the Organ Historical Society Convention in July 2024. Gallery References External links St. Leo's Church, Baltimore City, including photo from 1981, at Maryland Historical Trust Information from the Little Italy website parish website Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore
St. Luke's Church (Church Hill, Maryland)

St. Luke's Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Church Hill, Queen Anne's County, Maryland. It was built between 1729 and 1732 as the parish church for St. Luke's Parish, which had been established in 1728. It is one story high, five bays long and three bays wide, with brick exterior walls laid in Flemish bond with glazed headers. The structure features a gambrel roof and semicircular apse. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. Congressman Joshua Seney is buried in the churchyard. References External links St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Queen Anne's County, including photo from 1983, at Maryland Historical Trust St. Luke's, Church Hill & St. Andrew's, Sudlersville in Queen Anne's County website
St. Margaret's Episcopal Church (Annapolis, Maryland)

St. Margaret's Episcopal Church is a historic Carpenter Gothic style Episcopal church building in St. Margaret's, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Established in 1893 on the brick foundation of a previous church building, it is the fourth building constructed to serve Broad Neck Parish (later known as Westminster Parish), which was established in 1692 as one of the 30 original Anglican parishes in colonial Maryland St. Margaret's Episcopal Church is still an active parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. Since 1900, four parish halls have been built on the campus, including the existing parish hall constructed in 1970 and significantly improved over the years. Two rectories have been built on the campus and the surviving 1960 rectory became rental property then administrative offices. The parish completed a $4 million formation and pre-school building in 2015. The Rev. Peter W. Mayer is the current rector. References External links St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church website Annapolis wedding mapper - photo of St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church
St. Maria Goretti High School

Saint Maria Goretti Catholic High School is a private, Roman Catholic day school located in Hagerstown, Maryland. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, within the tri-state areas of the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, Western Maryland, and Southern Pennsylvania. History The school was originally the upper school for St. Mary's Catholic School, currently a K-8 day school located in downtown Hagerstown. From 1933 to 1955 the school was known as St. Mary's High School. In 1957, the upper school was relocated to a new campus in Hagerstown's North End and was renamed St. Maria Goretti High School in honor of the Italian saint Maria Goretti, who "lost her life at the age of 11 in order to protect her purity". The campus sits adjacent to St. Ann Roman Catholic Church. For much of the school's history, its faculty and administration was composed partly of members of the School Sisters of Notre Dame. However, in the 1980s and 1990s the high school grew increasingly reliant on lay faculty. Currently, the faculty and administration are entirely from the laity, though the school continues to have a chaplain. In September 2023, it was announced that the school could shut down in the absence of funding from the Archdiocese of Baltimore which is filing for bankruptcy. The Archdiocese of Baltimore had provided the school with 8.5 million dollars in the decade prior to 2023. Over the same time period, enrollment had declined 33% from its peak of 219 during the 2017-2018 school year. Enrollment for the 2023-2024 school year sat at 147. The school created an independent committee to explore the schools options. The schools lease at its Crestwood Academic Campus expires July 31, 2024. The former campus cannot be used due to being on a floodplain. In late November 2023, it was announced that the independent exploratory committee created to look into future options had failed to come up with any solutions. Due to this, it was announced that the school would cease operations following at the end 2023-2024 school year Athletics St. Maria Goretti is a member of the Baltimore Catholic League in basketball, and a member of the Crossroad Lacrosse League and Metro Independent Lacrosse League in lacrosse. In men's soccer, the school won championships in 2003, 2005, 2008, and 2010. The school also competes in swimming. Notable alumni John P. Donoghue, member of Maryland House of Delegates Rodney Monroe, former ACC Player of the Year, basketball, NC State University Kelly Wright, former Fox News anchor and national recording artist See also National Catholic Educational Association Notes and references External links St. Maria Goretti High School Website Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore