- Sacred Heart Catholic Church State
Historical Marker
- Located at East Hancock and Jefferson Streets in
Milledgeville, Ga.
(Text)
SACRED HEART CATHOLIC
CHURCH
The first Catholic mass was celebrated
at Milledgeville in April, 1845, at the Hugh Treanor apartment
in the Newell Hotel. Bishop Ignatius Reynolds of the diocese
of Charleston, accompanied by Father J.F. O'Neill, visited here
in 1847. In 1850 this parish was incorporated in the new Diocese
of Savannah. the church structure was built in 1874 and Robert
Kennedy was the first resident priest, 1899-94.
This site was previously occupied
by elegant La Fayette Hotel which opened in October, 1824, and
had as its guest Gen. Marquis de La Fayette in 1825.
005-26 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1961
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