It Was About 140 Years Ago They Started Building The Old St. Luke's

Back around 1870 or a little before they started to build The Old St. Luke's Church. When I saw all the equipment there yesterday and the huge excavator there a week or so ago, wonder what the old timers would have thought of that. Also the engineers were directing the excavators as they moved the dirt around. Not a big thing for those machines to move and rearrange.

Imagine how the people building the Church felt back in May of 1872 after they had started erecting the Old St. Luke's and some person in authority comes along and tells them tear it down and raise it up another for or five feet. I think I would have said, "Exactly how many feet and inches do you want it raised?"

An article dated May 22, 1872, in the St. Albans Messenger stated that "operations are about to recommence on the partially built Catholic Church in Fairfax. Among other things it is to be raised up some four or five feet higher as its present location is thought to be to low."