This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DcB.2ACE/3898.1 Message Board Post: You may want to check with the Diocese of Harrisburg (http://www.hbgdiocese.org). They have a history of the various parishes. Seems that there was no RC church in Mt. Carmel until 1866. Catholics had to attend Mass in Locust Gap or Ashland (Diocese of Allentown). Good luck!