After 1785, central Kentucky became a center of religious settlement. Presbyterians settled there in 1785, with Terah Templin as the first ordained minister in Kentucky, and the Springfield Presbyterian Church was founded in 1788. The church’s early history was closely tied to the pioneer missionary work of Rev. Terah Templin, who came to Kentucky before 1791 and obtained 600 acres about 5 miles north of Springfield in the area of Lincoln Homestead State Park, later selling that property to Mordecai Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln’s uncle. Methodists erected a log meeting house north of Springfield and were connected with Jesse Head, who officiated the wedding of Nancy Hanks and Thomas Lincoln on June 12th, 1806. Baptists settled there in 1796 and worshipped in the Methodist meeting house. Catholics of English heritage also settled there in 1785 and had a significant influence in Kentucky. Father Stephen Badin, the first Roman Catholic priest ordained in America, and the French bishop Joseph Flaget developed the area into a headquarters for serving America’s growing Catholic population. Gethsemani Abbey, the Sisters of Loretto, Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, and the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine resulted from this Catholic migration. St. Rose Church, located two miles from Springfield and built in 1809, became the first foundation of the Dominican Order in America and one of the oldest churches still in use. The first ordination of a priest in Kentucky took place there in 1811, when Bishop Flaget ordained Fr. Gary Chabrat, and Edward Dominic Fenwick, the first bishop of Cincinnati, was also consecrated there. St. Rose was also the site where the first congregation of Dominican Sisters in America was founded.