- St. Paul's Mission
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caption = St Paul's Mission, August 2006
location = On Lake Roosevelt, west of Kettle Falls
nearest_city =Kettle Falls, Washington
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added =November 20 ,1974
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governing_body =Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area St. Paul's Mission was a Jesuit mission church established in the
Hudson's Bay Company 's (HBC)Columbia District , in thePacific Northwest region ofNorth America , in the 1830s. The mission was built near the HBC'sFort Colville , on the bluff then overlookingKettle Falls on theColumbia River . The building still stands today.History
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Catholic andProtestant missionaries visited Kettle Falls several times from 1836 on, attempting to convert natives to Christianity.The first missionaries, representatives of the
American Board of Foreign Missions and sponsored by the Presbyterians and Congregationalists, arrived in 1836. They were unable to baptize any Indians.cite web
title=St. Paul's Mission
url=http://www.nps.gov/laro/historyculture/mission-point.htm
publisher=nps.gov]Catholic missionaries, led by Father
François Norbert Blanchet andFather Demers , arrived in 1838. They delivered the first Catholic mass between theRocky Mountains and theCascade Range in 1839 [ [http://www.rootsweb.com/~orspmhs/stpaulindex.html St. Paul Mission Historical Society ] ] and baptized 19 Indians, but were unable to establish a permanent mission. Their efforts were more focused onSt. Paul Roman Catholic Church , in theWillamette Valley .Following Father DeSmet's preaching to the Sxoielpi (Colville Indians) in August 1845, a small log chapel was built. Two years later the present hand-hewn log church replaced it. Sometime around 1869, St. Paul's Mission was abandoned in favor of a location seven miles north of the present city of Colville. Damaged by fire in 1910, the present structure was restored in 1939-40. [ [http://www.spokaneoutdoors.com/stpaulm.htm St. Paul's Mission] at [http://www.spokaneoutdoors.com Spokane Outdoors] ]
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* [http://content.lib.washington.edu/cgi-bin/htmlview.exe?CISOROOT=/loc&CISOPTR=1054 washington.edu] Photograph: "St. Paul's Indian Mission, near Kettle Falls, Washington, 1888"
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