Also........the strong connection between certain cities.........and particularly for more than one reasons.......amongst those.......Wash DC......and the area around here........Baltimore, MD........NYC.........Boston........NYC........was New Amersterdam.......and where the 1st named press..........George Washington was ignaurguated.....he was not ignauruated here in DC........DC had not even been built back then.................

d 269 acres of land for an establishment for the sisterhood near Emmitsburg in the countryside of Frederick County, Maryland. According to tradition, Elizabeth named the area Saint Joseph's Valley.^[1] In June 1809 Mother Seton established the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph.^[2]

The former Fleming farmhouse, informally known as the "Stone House", built in 1750 near Toms' Creek, served as the first headquarters for the community.^[3] The first winter proved difficult as the wind blew in icy drafts through the chinks of the building, and the occupants sometimes awoke to find a blanket of snow had drifted into the rooms during the night. In mid-October 1809, Archbishop John Carroll of Baltimore, who had come to administer Confirmation to the children determined that the building was unsuitable, and directed the erection of a new log structure now known as the "White House."^[4] In mid-February, 1810, Elizabeth and her companions moved into the recently completed Saint Joseph’s House (now "The White House".)^[1] There she established the first free U.S. Roman Catholic school for girls, which became the nucleus of the catholic parochial school system in the United States.^[5] After her death in early January 1821, Mother Seton was buried at a cemetery in Emmitsburg that she once dubbed "God's Little Acre."

Saint Joseph's Chapel was consecrated on May 6, 1841. King Louis-Phillippe and Queen Marie-Amelie of France donated three paintings for the new chapel, one of them the "Assumption" after the original by Murillo. Because of the extension of the cloister towards the Chapel, the "White House" was moved from its original location to a spot northwest of the Chapel. In 1846 at the request of William Seton, his mother's body was removed to a mortuary chapel which had been built in the Sisters' cemetery.^[4]

During the Civil War at least 270 sisters served as nurses and were called "angels of the battlefield" by both Union and Confederate soldiers.^[5] The Sisters also served as nurses during the Spanish–American War.^[4]