The oldest Catholic Church building in Greenbrier County, the Catholic Chapel of Mary Immaculate near Williamsburg, will be the site of first Saturday activities beginning on May 3 and continuing monthly on the first Saturday of June, July, August, September, and October.
Activities will include each month special devotions at 10:30 a.m. followed by daily Mass at 11 a.m. and a covered dish lunch on the grounds following the Mass.
The public is invited. The Church is located on Catholic Church Road off the Frankford/Williamsburg Road, 4.5 miles from US 219 in Frankford.
For further information, telephone the office of the Catholic Churches of the Greenbrier Valley 304-645-1373.
Opened in 1901, the Chapel is the third building in the history of the community. The first was built near the church cemetery and accidentally burned as did the second church, built at the intersection of the Catholic Church Road and the Frankford/Williamsburg Road.
During times when there was no local church, the Catholic population would meet at midnight on Saturday night and walk the 18 miles into Lewisburg to early Mass at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church which was located at the intersection of Church Street and US 60 near downtown Lewisburg. That church no longer exists and the site is now a flower garden on Academy Park.
