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St. Agnes Academy for Girls

Ardmore, Oklahoma
Details:

Dates of Operation: 1898–1949
Current Diocese: Oklahoma City
Previous Dioceses Involved:
Vicariate Apostolic of Indian Territory, 1898–1905
Oklahoma, 1905–1930
Oklahoma City and Tulsa, 1930–1968
Religious Orders who worked at the Parish / School:
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas*, 1898–1949
On a Reservation: Chickasaw Reservation
On the Department of the Interior List: Yes
Tribal Nations Impacted (as listed in historical documents):
Chickasaw; Choctaw

Notes:
  Boys were taught at the school from 1922 to 1932. St. Agnes was destroyed by fire in 1949, and the boarding school closed. St. Mary’s Catholic School replaced the boarding school, and the Sisters of Mercy continued to staff the school until it closed in 1967 and provided catechetical instruction until 1968.