Inside the church.

ID: 715 ~ Source: Courtesy of North Adams Public Library.
This file appears in: St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church
Inside the church.

An interior view of St. Francis of Assisi 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…