> >Janet, > >--- There is a history booklet (maybe several) at the HCHS library for the >parish in Huntingdon. Without actually referring to it, I believe that I >recall that the land itself was owned by the Huntingdon Catholics for many >decades before Huntingdon had a resident priest. Priests from elsewhere, maybe >Bedford, Newry, would visit Huntingdon and say masses and celebrate the >sacraments. Perhaps they recorded some Huntingdon events in their own church >books, but Ledoux's book should have that covered. Actually I believe that >Catholics were the first group to put up a church building in the old town, >made of logs, I think before 1800. The only other Catholic parish in the >county with any antiquity is St. Mary's at Shade Gap, at the opposite end from >West Township.