About this tour
In 1855, sixteen Polish immigrant families from Silesia arrived together in the young town of Bandera and built one of the oldest Polish Catholic parishes in the United States — a limestone church, a convent-school, family homes, and eventually a cemetery, almost all within a single walkable block. This short walk traces that immigrant community from its still-active 1876 church through its restored convent-school-turned-museum to the sole surviving settlers' house and the cemetery where the founding families are buried.