1837  St. Joseph parish established by Bishop Simon Brute
1842  St. Mother Theodore Guerin sends her Sisters of Providence to establish her first school at St. Joseph parish.  This was publicly funded (& inexpensive at the time given the high proportion of religious vocations involved in the school).  All parishes then followed suit; all publicly funded.

1889 Jasper College Academy was founded for secondary education, incorporated in conjunction with St. Meinrad's College.  The school was located at the current site of the Providence Home and Ruxer baseball field.  In 1933, the school moved to Aurora, IL.
1870  Academy Immaculate Conception established for local girls.  Name changed to Marian Heights 1973, coinciding with a different focus that had developed for the school, being a boarding school for an international base of students.  Closed in 2000.

1951  St. Ferdinand High School was erected, in large for the convenience of their children who were driving to Huntingburg for secondary education. 

St. Ferdinand High School became a public school in 1968-1969 during the re-organization of the Dubois County School Corporations.  Around that time the ACLU brought multiple suits and successfully removed any religious identity from all of the schools in the area.

1944  Evansville diocese established
1948  Holy Family parish established by Bishop H. Grimmelsman, to be erected first as a parish school, and second as a place of worship

1951  First Mass at Holy Family celebrated initially sacraments celebrated in the“gym church”
1954  Precious Blood parish established by Bishop Grimmelsman, similarly with a school first focus

The only remaining Catholic schools we have in the area are Holy Family and Precious Blood schools, both of which became schools before there was even a place for worship.  This is the priority required to be successful.