A Peaceful Place Traditional Cache
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In 1877, the first Presbyterian influence arrived in Alaska when missionary Amanda McFarland arrived in Fort Wrangell. She opened a home and a school for girls. In 1878 Reverend S Hall Young arrived and the first Presbyterian church was officially organized. He worked among both miners and Tlingits. He established the Fort Wrangell Tlingit Industial School to teach young Tlingit men various trades, such as printing, boatbuilding and construction.
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An interesting side note: In 1939 a neon cross was mounted on the church tower. The crews of many storm-tossed ships have expressed gratitude for the lighted cross
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St Rose of Lima Catholic Church***
The St Rose of Lima church is significant to state and local history because it represents the first Catholic parish in the State of Alaska.
The church began with Father John Althoff, a newly ordained priest, accompanied by Charles John Seghers, Bishop of Victoria Island, arrived in Wrangell in the spring of 1879. Althoff himself a craftsman, enlisted the aid of Wrangell's Irish Catholics and that year they built the little church named St Rose of Lima. In 1898 the church was torn down due to its state of disrepair and a new church was completed in 1908. In 1924 Father Francis Monroe started the long needed expansion and remodel.
Although small, the Parish community remains active and involved in our community.
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