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The school was founded in 1871 by the Cherokee National Council as the Cherokee Orphan Asylum to care for the numerous orphans who came out of the American Civil War. The first building on the current site of the school was erected in 1875. [9]
The Saint Mary's Orphan Asylum housed at that time 93 children (ages 2 to 13) and 10 sisters. The hurricane arrived quietly on September 7, 1900. The full force of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 would not be felt until the next day, September 8 and began to erode away the sand dunes that surrounded St. Mary's Orphanage.
The Saint Mary's Academy was established in 1880 for the education of girls, along with a boarding school for boys, the Sacred Heart Institute. By 1884, there was a convent, a school for the girls, stables, employees' houses, blacksmith shop, tool house, carpenter shop, and a bakery-where the Sisters baked 500 French loaves each day.
Mount Saint Mary's Convent and Academy, originally the Sacred Heart Convent and Holy Angels Orphanage and previously Mount St. Mary's Convent and Orphan Asylum, and also known as Mount Saint Mary's Academy and Convent, is the only extant original orphanage in California and commemorates the Sisters of Mercy, in Grass Valley, Nevada County, California.
St. Joseph's Boarding School, Chickasha, Oklahoma [4] St. Joseph's Indian School, Chamberlain, South Dakota [71] [72] St. Mary's Academy, near Asher, Potowatamie Nation, Indian Territory open 1880–1946 [68] St. Louis Industrial School, Pawhuska, Osage Nation, Indian Territory open 1887–1949 and operated by the Bureau of Catholic Indian ...
St. Vincent de Paul Orphan Asylum - Opened in 1868 and staffed by the Marianite Sisters of the Holy Cross. St. Zita's Home for Friendless Women - Opened in 1890 and staffed by the Sisters of St. Zita, moved in 2002 to Monsey, New York, where it became the St. Zita Villa.
The Hospital of St. Vincent DePaul was incorporated in 1856 by eight Daughters of Charity during the yellow fever epidemic. The Sisters of the Daughters of Charity came to Norfolk in 1839 to run St. Mary's Orphan Asylum and care for the sick and dying during the yellow fever epidemic in Norfolk. [2] [3]
In 1872 the Cherokee Nation purchased the Ross home for $26,000 and used it for years as the Cherokee Orphan Asylum. It was destroyed by fire in 1899. Reconstructed, the structure is now used as a gym. The Cherokee chief Samuel Houston Mayes established a ferry and mercantile business on the Grand River in 1906.