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The St. Joseph Miller Street Catholic Church was placed on the National Registry of Historic Sites in 1986 and is one of the oldest facilities still standing in what was the original downtown area for Palm Bay.

St. Joseph Catholic Miller Street
Church Cemetery History

The birth date of St. Joseph Catholic Church and Cemetery is generally accepted as 1914, but its origin really goes back to 1912, the year our first parishioners arrived in what was then called Tillman.

These early settlers, predominantly of Germanic and Slavonic stock, coming from settled communities in the North and Mid-West, were a devout, industrious, and determined group. They missed the churches, schools and priests, which had been an integral part of their lives. The Florida Indian River Catholic Colony provided them with a place of worship and erected a small frame building, called Saint John, located southwest of Malabar Road on Mission Road.

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