Sisters of Charity from Nazareth—Angela Spink, Frances Gardiner, and Cecily O'Brien—arrived here in 1820 and began a girls boarding school on this site on land of the Alvey family. With the aid of Father Elisha Durbin, the school gained renown and operated until 1967. The first Catholic cemetery in the county adjoins the school site, and several Revolutionary War soldiers are buried here.