Saint Katharine's Hall

1901 - 1918

Built by Saint M. Katharine Drexel, S.B.S., Philadelphia heiress (1858-1955). Here she conducted a “select free colored school” for black children and served the Carlisle Indian School. She vowed to be “mother and servant of the Indian and Negro races.”

Declared Saint on October 1, 2000.

Marker is on Pomfret Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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