School and church postcard.

ID: 682 ~ Source: Courtesy North Adams Historical Society.
This file appears in: St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church
School and church postcard.

A view of the parochial school and church.

This file appears in: St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church

By Joshua Vallieres
Michael Ryan was the first Irish Catholic to settle in North Adams, and he was the first of many. The population of Irish migrants in North Adams grew in years to follow, increasing even more after the Irish Famine of the 1840s. Religious bigotry…