Calmoutier

Calmoutier (HMG92)

Location: Fredericksburg, OH 44627 Holmes County
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Country: United States of America
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N 40° 39.958', W 81° 46.729'

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Side A:
This area, known as Calmoutier, was an early French Catholic farming community founded in 1832 by Claude Druhot, who came from Calmoutier, Hte-Sa?ne, France. Its first native, the four-month-old Claude Joseph Druhot, was baptized on 9 June 1833 by Fr. John Henni, who resided at St. John's in Canton (and in 1854 became Milwaukee's first bishop). In 1836 Fr. John Alleman, O.P., established St. Genevieve's Mission (when it began to keep its own records) on land donated by the Pierson and Roussel families. The log chapel that was built (the first of four churches here) predated any Catholic church building in Cleveland, Akron, and Toledo.

Side B:
Fr. Stephen Badin, the first Catholic priest ordained in America (by Bishop John Carroll in 1793), frequented St. Genevieve's from 1835-1837. He was Missionary Apostolic and Pastor of the Potawatomi Indians, Vicar-General of Bardstown and Apostle of Kentucky, and Vicar-General of Cincinnati. In 1841 he deeded the site of Notre Dame University, where he is buried, to its founder Fr. Edward Sorin, C.S.C. But the most celebrated missionary, Fr. Jean Baptiste Lamy, came from Danville in nearby Knox County between 1839-1841. In 1853 he was made the first Bishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Portrayed as Bishop Latour in Willa Cather's fictionalized novel, Death Comes for the Archbishop, he is also the hero in Paul Horgan's historical work, Lamy of Santa Fe. The famous Kit Carson, a convert, esteemed him highly and scouted for him.
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HM NumberHMG92
Series This marker is part of the Ohio: Ohio Historical Society series
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Marker Number2-38
Year Placed2003
Placed ByCalmoutier Memorial Association and The Ohio Historical Society
Marker ConditionNo reports yet
Date Added Saturday, September 6th, 2014 at 1:41pm PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)17T E 434170 N 4501968
Decimal Degrees40.66596667, -81.77881667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 40° 39.958', W 81° 46.729'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds40° 39' 57.48" N, 81° 46' 43.74" W
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Area Code(s)330
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 4455-4467 Co Hwy 229, Fredericksburg OH 44627, US
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