St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Denton

The missionaries did not celebrate Mass every Sunday at one location. Services might be regularly conducted in a private home at one location every third Sunday and at another location every fourth Sunday. The parishioners were relatively few and far between. In 1824, an acre of land in Denton was deeded to Ambrose Marechal, Archbishop of Baltimore. This ground was intended for the Denton church, now Saint Elizabeth. The exact date when the church was completed and first used for services is lost to history, but the first baptism recorded at Saint Elizabeth was on March 1, 1831. It is believed that the name of the church originates in honoring Elizabeth Richardson, wife of Colonel Richardson whose family largely financed the building project. The structure of Saint Elizabeth was deemed in 1888 by the Most Reverend Alfred A. Curtis, second Bishop of Wilmington, to be too small and very dilapidated. He expressed his desire to see a new church built by the next summer. The old structure was sold and relocated to Mr. Henry Lewis, Esquire's property directly across the street from the church in Denton and used as a barn. The current church structure was erected in 1890. Bishop Curtis dedicated the church on November 16, 1890, which has been remodeled several times since Vatican II.

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Church congregation was ministered as a mission by Jesuit priests from Saint Joseph in Cordova from 1817 until 1873 and by diocesan priests from 1874 until 1887 residing at Saint Peter in Queenstown. In 1887, it became a mission of the Benedictine Monastery, and in 1896 it became a mission in Saint Benedict Parish with the erection of the church in Ridgely.