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The Brothers travel from Louisville to Kentucky's second oldest city, Bardstown, which was also also the first center of Roman Catholicism west of the Appalachian Mountains in the original western frontier territories of the United States as noted…

This journey would take them another 276 miles through much of the unsure terrain, where the Ohio Indian wars had only ended five years earlier.

Builder William Shannon's contract read, "There are to be two inside partition walls of stone from the foundation to the top, one foot thick. One chimney in each end, with two fireplaces in each chimney, said chimney to go up with said building, the…

On close inspection, viewers may notice none of the original window frames or walls are perfectly straight.

This may be due in part to the fact that the building is over 200 years old, but also likely related to the fact that at the time Mr.…

Following Christian Brother's dedication to universal education, Reverend James Maxwell, then also President of the Louisiana Territorial Legislature led a unanimous approval of the St. Genevieve Academy's charter in June 21, 1808.
Thus, creating…