Mary MacKillop small yellow cottage now known as Mary MacKillop cottage was originally built as a miner's house around 1870. It was bought by the church and incorporated into the church school in 1882 and then in 1897, Sister Mary MacKillop had the cottage and some of the school converted to a convent for the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart who worked in New Zealand and Australia. In 1897, Bishop Maher of Port Augusta arranged for the Sisters of St Joseph to take charge of the St Anacletus Catholic Day School at Petersburg (now Peterborough). MacKillop founded a convent
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC), is a Roman Catholic, four-year liberal arts college located in Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, northwest of Terre Haute, and between the Wabash River and the Illinois state line. It is the oldest Catholic college in Indiana. The College is known for the Mari Hulman George School of Equine Studies, which houses 50 horses on campus. It has pre-professional programs such as pre-veterinarian, pre-law, pre-medicine, and pre-dentistry, and several niche programs in leadership development, art therapy, music therapy. The school of nursing has received acclaim. Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College was founded as an academy for young