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Religion & Churches

This topic appears in 68 indexed records between 1831 and 1949.
68 Indexed Records
1831 Earliest Record
1949 Latest Record
Bakerton Strongest Location
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November 16, 2025

23 More Catholics Take Temperance Pledge

The Temperance Cause still flourishes in this county. At Harpers-Ferry, on Sunday last, twenty-three more persons took the Total Abstinence pledge at the Catholic Church. And the procession of the several Societies, to take place at […]
November 16, 2025

Temperance Movement in Harpers Ferry

Messrs. Editors– It affords me much pleasure to give you and your readers some account of the great and glorious Temperance Reform at Harpers-Ferry, Va., which place has “lang syne,” like too many other towns, stood […]
November 16, 2025

Temperance Procession

On Saturday last, the Harpers-Ferry Total Abstinence Society, joined by other societies, had their procession through the village, and attracted deep interest and attention. At about 10 o’clock, the societies came forth from their respective places […]
November 16, 2025

St. Peter’s Catholic Church of Harpers Ferry: An Irish Parish on American Soil

Without the Irish, there would be no Catholic congregation in Harpers Ferry. Although St. Peter's is considered a Roman Catholic parish, the church historically took on an overwhelmingly Irish congregation, and tailored its sermons to the very similar, yet slightly different ideology of the Celtic rooted version of traditional Roman Catholicism.
November 9, 2025

Last Mass at St. Peters

To the Editor of the Free Press. The 2nd of July was an eventful day to the Catholics of Harper’s Ferry. Father O’Farrell, of Petersburg, said the last mass in St. Peter’s Church, which has stood […]
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Time Period Concentration

This topic appears most frequently during the following decades.

1900s 14 records
1890s 14 records
1910s 7 records
1840s 7 records
1870s 5 records
1920s 5 records