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St. Patrick Church
PO Box 598, 380 Academy Hill Road
New Castle, ME 04553
Phone : 207-563-3240
St. Patrick’s Church, Damariscotta Mills
Foundation laid 1807 ~ Completed in 1808. A little off the beaten path, on a hill overlooking the beautiful Damariscotta River, on the old road from Newcastle to Damariscotta Mills stands the oldest Catholic Church in New England. The history of St. Patrick’s Church at the head of the tide of the Damariscotta River takes us back to the establishing of the Catholic Church in the United States, especially in New England. Much of the early Catholic history of the State of Maine is associated with devoted missionaries, who came down the Kennebec Valley from Quebec to minister to the Indians and French settlers, but the early history of St. Patrick’s is also intimately associated with that of Boston and the Irish settlers who came from Boston to carve out a new life and sometimes fame and fortune in Maine.