So the song goes on the founding of Ireland.  Thus this area must

have seemed to the Irish when they came to Cuffey's Cove.

The town of Cuffey's Cove was a thriving shipping port with a population

of between three and four hundred inhabitants, mostly Irish.  According

to local lore, someone posted a sign at the mill reading, "No

Irish Need Apply."  The next morning another handwritten sign was

nailed below: "Whoever wrote this, wrote it well,

The same is written on the Gates of Hell"

The early Irish organized the Native Sons of Little Ireland and celebrated

the memory of their homeland by sponsoring the annual Saint Patrick's

observation.  When the mill at Cuffey's Cove shut down in the 1890's,

the operation moved to Greenwood/Elk.  Along with the mill and the people

moved the annual Saint Patrick's Party.

The tradition continues with members of the Blessed Sacrament Church

Altar Society sponsoring the Saint Patrick's Dinner and Dance each year.

We will soon be celebrating our 115th party.

An when the angels found it