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Elizabeth Seton's First School and First American Congregation of Women Religious


In 1808, in this little house on Paca Street in Baltimore, Elizabeth Seton opened her first Catholic school and welcomed the first women to be known as Sisters of Charity.

The sisters lived in the Stone House when they moved from Paca Street to the Valley in Emmitsburg
in July, 1809.


The White House was built soon after the sisters settled in Emmitsburg and accepted students into their school.
 

 

 

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