Accompanying him were another priest, seven Jesuit novices, three lay-brothers, and three African-American enslaved couples: Moses and Nancy Queen, Thomas and Molly Brown, and Isaac and Susan Hawkins.

As the indigenous people moved farther west and south, the school ceased operation in 1831, and the onsite novitiate was expanded.

The seminary was closed in 1971 due to fewer religious vocations and the post-Vatican II movement to urban areas.

[6] Among other items, the museum contained two oil paintings from 1933 by John A. Mallin, one of Ignatius Loyola and the other, Francis Xavier,[10] which stood at the entrance to the chapel.

The seminary had an orchard, a chicken ranch, a cattle barn, wheat fields, vineyards, a butcher shop, a creamery, and a bakery.