In 1752 the first Mass was celebrated by Jesuit Father Ferdinand Farmer, a German missionary based in St. Mary’s in Lancaster at a farm belonging to Henry Eckenroth, head of the only Catholic household located in the area. This Mass was the beginning of the parish that later became St. Peter’s.
On May 30, 1799, the congregation gathered with Father Louis DeBarth in Elizabethtown to lay the cornerstone of a new church.
In 1840, St. Peter’s was designated a parish in its own right with Father Francis Marshall as its first pastor. On May 10, 1998, ground was broken for the new church. The new Saint Peter Church at 1840 Marshall Drive, Elizabethtown, was dedicated on September 5, 1999.
Blessed Mother Statue for the Unborn