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St. Mark Church in Evanston

The Past and Future of Evanston’s St. Mark Church

by Evanston Community Councilphotos by Angie Lipscomb Photography   In 1904, the Missionaries of the Precious Blood expressed interest in establishing a parish in Evanston, a new middle-class suburb of Cincinnati where there were over 100 Catholic families, many of Polish and German descent. Permission was granted to establish the St. Mark parish in 1905.

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The Buena Vista Historic District of Newport, Itself the Oldest of NKY’s River Towns

by Margo Warminski, CPA Preservation Directororiginally published in Northern Kentucky Tribune   “Newport’s social structure would also change fundamentally. A prosperous, old-stock, Protestant, river town would evolve into an immigrant, heavily Catholic, working-class city” (Thomas L. Purvis, et al., eds., Newport, Kentucky: A Bicentennial History. Newport, KY: Otto Zimmerman & Son, 1996, p. 53).  

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