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42-67344. Website. City of Saint Marys. St. Marys is a city in Elk County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population is 12,738 as of the 2020 census. [2] Originally a small town inhabited by mostly Bavarian Roman Catholics, it was founded December 8, 1842. It is home to Straub Brewery and the first Benedictine convent in the United States.
A Check List of American Eighteenth Century Newspapers in the Library of Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office. Retrieved 2010-10-21. "Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820 Part XII: Pennsylvania (A-N)" Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society30 (1): 81-150. 1921.
WKBI-FM first went on the air in August 1966, and had originally been licensed to Ridgway. Though Ridgway is the seat of government for Elk County, the station's city of license was later changed to Saint Marys, which lies about 12 miles east of Ridgway. For a period during the late 1970s, this station was known as WTMX.
Straub Brewery was founded in 1872 by Peter Straub (1850–1913) of Felldorf, Württemberg, Germany, who purchased the Benzinger Spring Brewery from his father-in-law, Francis Xavier Sorg. Brewing continuously since that time, Straub is the third oldest family-owned brewery in the United States and is considered an American legacy brewery.
Elk County Catholic High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in St. Marys, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Erie . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
The airport covers 283 acres (115 ha). Its one runway, 10/28, is 4,300 x 75 ft (1,311 x 23 m) asphalt. In the year ending October 31, 2007 the airport had 6,730 aircraft operations, average 18 per day: 85% general aviation, 15% air taxi and <1% military. 26 aircraft were then based at the airport: 80% single-engine, 4% multi-engine, 8% ...
St. Mary's church, finished in 1842, was the first Catholic church in Wilkes-Barre. [9] The first one in Scranton was built in 1852 on the site of the present day Church of Nativity. [10] In Williamsport, a German group erected the first Catholic church, St. Boniface, in 1855. [11]
Benzinger Township, Elk County, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 41°26′15″N 78°32′34″W. Decker's Chapel, about 2 miles south of central St. Marys. Benzinger Township was a township in Elk County, Pennsylvania. According to the 1990 census, it had a population of 8,509. [ 1] It was settled in 1842 and created on December 18, 1845. [ 2]