St. Joseph Catholic Church

St. Joseph Catholic Church (HM1DD2)

Location: Pensacola, FL 32502 Escambia County
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Country: United States of America
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N 30° 24.53', W 87° 13.061'

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The Sisters of Mercy began the Catholic Church's work for blacks in Pensacola when they opened St. Joseph Colored and Creole School on September 8, 1879. St. Joseph Catholic Church, built in 1891, was the 1st African-American parish in the Diocese of Mobile. The first Church was a two-story frame building. The present Gothic revival style church, built in 1894, cared for the needs of African-Americans, Creoles, Germans, Italians, and Irish immigrants. In the 1920's, Fr. Charles Hartkoff, the church's second pastor, built and opened St. Joseph orphanage which took in homeless African-American boys. In 1939, Fr. Joseph J. Raleigh closed and reopened one school operated by the Sisters of Charity of Convent Station, New Jersey. Two years later, St. Joseph High School opened, the only Catholic African-American high school in the state of Florida at the time. At its height, St. Joseph's operated "Maryall Negro Missions" which included four chapels: Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Victory, Our Lady of Fatima and Our Lady of Africa. Other ministries included Our Lady of Fatima Mission School and Our Lady of Angels Maternity Hospital for African-American women located beside the Church's grammar and high school.
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HM NumberHM1DD2
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Marker NumberF-697_MARKER
Year Placed2010
Placed ByThe Knights of Peter Claver Council 233 & the Florida Department of State
Marker ConditionNo reports yet
Date Added Sunday, October 12th, 2014 at 4:56am PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)16R E 479091 N 3364108
Decimal Degrees30.40883333, -87.21768333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 30° 24.53', W 87° 13.061'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds30° 24' 31.80" N, 87° 13' 3.66" W
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Area Code(s)850
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 140-158 W Government St, Pensacola FL 32502, US
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