Coffee Run Mission Site, also known as Coffee Run Church and St. Mary's Church, is a historic mission

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site and national

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located at

Hockessin, Delaware Hockessin () is a census-designated place (CDP) in New Castle County, Delaware, New Castle County, Delaware, United States. The population was 13,478 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 Census. History Hockessin came into existence as a littl ...

. It encompasses two contributing buildings, both now demolished, and one contributing site. They were the Father Kenney House and stone barn with frame addition. The house was built in 1812, and was a two-story, three bay stone dwelling with a cross-gable roof. The Coffee Run cemetery is the burial ground of the first Catholic church in Delaware. It measures approximately 66 feet by 183 feet and includes over 50 carved headstones and 12 uncut stone markers. Located at the cemetery is a small cinder block building, which contains an altar, and stands at the site of the original log mission church built about 1790. It was the first Catholic church in Delaware out of which grew the present Roman Catholic Diocese of Wilmington. and The house was demolished in March 2010 following an arson. The barn, also affected by arson, remained mostly intact but in a decaying condition. Trinity Community Church planned to restore it and incorporate it into a new church on the site, but discovered that the mortar was no longer sound. The barn was demolished in 2016 and the stone saved for reuse in the facade of the new church. It was listed on the

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in 1973.

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New Castle, Delaware Community History and Archaeology Program, "Pioneer Catholic church nears 200th anniversary," Brandywine Crossroads, September 25, 1986
{{National Register of Historic Places in Delaware History of Catholicism in the United States Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware Houses in New Castle County, Delaware National Register of Historic Places in New Castle County, Delaware Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware Cemeteries established in the 1810s 1810s establishments in Delaware