ST. FRANCIS XAVIER'S CATHOLIC CHURCH (photo #2)

St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, shown here about 1910, was erected in 1870, replacing an earlier church that had been built in 1847. St. Xavier is now Parkersburg's oldest church. When John F. Kennedy was stumping for the Democratic Presidential nomination in Parkersburg on Sunday, May 1, 1960, he walked from the Blennerhassett Hotel, where he stayed overnight, up to St. Xavier for morning Mass.

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