Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana

Coordinates: 39°30′39″N 87°28′02″W / 39.51083°N 87.46722°W / 39.51083; -87.46722
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This article is about Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Vigo County, Indiana. For other uses, see Saint Marys, Indiana.
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods
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GNIS feature ID442687

Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, often called St. Mary's, is an

ZIP code of 47876.[4]
It had a population of 797 at the 2010 census.

History

The earliest land records in Saint Mary-of-the-Woods date back to 1825, when George and Polly Smith acquired a land patent signed by Andrew Jackson. It is likely that this was a land grant for military service, as George Smith served as an aide and dispatch bearer to George Washington during the American Revolution. In the following years several other settlers acquired acreage from the United States government. From the Smiths, a Joseph Thralls and his family acquired a significant parcel of land in 1835.

Records from 1838 show a purchase of land transferring from Joseph and Sarah Thralls to Bishop

Terre Haute area and built a small frame church, the first in Vigo County
.

In 1840,

Roman Catholic
congregation of women. Originally, the Thralls family provided housing for the sisters.

As the Sisters of Providence grew in number, the town of St. Mary's also expanded. In April 1850, twenty men from the village had left for California in search of gold. Despite this, by 1851, Sister of Providence Sister Saint Francis Xavier wrote, "Now we have quite a little country town... We have in the village a post office, two little inns, three or four stores, wheelwrights, coopers, carpenters, blacksmiths, shoemakers, cabinet makers, etc."[5]

A post office was established under the name St. Mary's in 1846. It was renamed to Saint Mary Of The Woods in 1912, and is still in operation.[6]

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
2010797—
2020767−3.8%
U.S. Decennial Census[7]

References

  1. ^ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved March 16, 2022.
  2. ^ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
  3. ^ "Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved August 6, 2017.
  4. ^ Zip Code Lookup
  5. ^ Brown, Mary Borromeo (1949). History of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: Volume I. Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana: Sisters of Providence. pp. 33–36, 627–629.
  6. ^ "Vigo County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
  7. ^ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2016.
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