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Bedford: St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, built of oolitic limestone, Bedford, Indiana.

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Indiana, United States
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Bedford, city, seat of Lawrence county, southern Indiana, U.S., 25 miles (40 km) south of Bloomington. Founded in 1825 as the county seat and named by Joseph Rawlins for his home county of Bedford, Tennessee, it developed with the discovery of oolitic limestone in the 1830s. Bedford limestone is a highly prized building material, used to great effect in such famous buildings as the Empire State Building in New York City and the Pentagon in...

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