North Bloomfield

St. Columncille’s Catholic Church

St. Columncille’s Catholic Church was originally built in 1860 near French Corral as the Bridgeport Union Guard Hall. The building was used to train men for the civil war under Captain Frank Coffey of French Corral. By 1869, the building was being used as a house of worship by the Catholics of the ridge towns, and was purchased by them in 1880. The church was moved and re-erected here on the site of the Catholic church that once served the miners of North Bloomfield. The cemetery is located a little way behind the building.