Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
St. Marys or Saint Marys is a city in Pottawatomie and Wabaunsee counties in the U.S. state of Kansas in the United States. [1] As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 2,759. [ 5 ] It is a population center of Traditionalist Catholicism and the home of Saint Mary's Academy and College .
The original college at this location, St. Mary's College, was founded by the Jesuits in 1848 as an Indian mission. [2] The school is the site of the first cathedral west of the Missouri River and east of the Rockies, [3] the 1851 "log cathedral" of Bishop John Baptist Miège, S.J., Apostolic Vicar of Kansas under Pope Pius IX known familiarly as "The Bishop East of the Rockies".
Potawatomi girls at St. Mary's Mission, Kansas, ca. 1867 The Pottawatomie Indian Pay Station (1855) St. Mary's Mission was a Jesuit mission founded in 1847 along the Oregon Trail . The Pottawatomie Indian Pay Station was built in 1857 for use by government agents to pay an annuity to the Potawatomi Indians who relocated to the area from the ...
The old St. Marys High School was demolished in 1983. The shop addition was converted into a senior citizen center. Old Hill School was sold to the city of St. Marys in 1982 and razed in 1983. The first graduating class of St. Marys High was the class of 1899, thus making them the 100th graduating class. [1]
Kaw Valley USD 321 is a public unified school district headquartered in St. Marys, Kansas, United States. [1] The district includes the communities of St. Marys, Delia, Emmett, Rossville, Willard, Saint Clere, and nearby rural areas. [2]
Pottawatomie Indian Pay Station is a historic building in St. Marys, Kansas and associated with the Potawatomi tribe.. It was built of stone in 1855 for use by government agents in paying a regular annuity to Potawatomi tribe members who had agreed to move from the Great Lakes region in exchange for reservation land in Kansas.
In 1802, Spain returned most of the land to France, keeping title to about 7,500 square miles. In 1803, most of the land for modern day Kansas was acquired by the United States from France as part of the 828,000 square mile Louisiana Purchase.
All incorporated communities in Kansas are called cities, unlike in some states where some are called towns or villages.(11 of 50 states only have cities). Once a city is incorporated in Kansas, it will continue to be a city even after falling below the minimum required to become a city, and even if the minimum is later raised. [3]