From Historic Overview: Carnation, Washington, by Christine Savage Palmer, for the King County Cultural Resources Division, Parks, Planning and Resources Department, September, 1995:
The earliest religious services in Tolt were conducted in residents' homes by itinerant clergymen. During the early 1880s, Roman Catholic religious services began in Tolt with a traveling priest who also stopped at Monroe, Duvall, Snoqualmie and Issaquah. The first Catholic religious mass and baptism took place in Tolt on May 20, 1891. Parishioners constructed the St. Anthony Mission Church in Tolt in 1914 with donations from the Catholic Extension Society. The land was donated by Tolt resident Ronald McDonald, who continued to live in the house west of the church. Mass was only celebrated in the new building monthly as the priest was shared with the rest of the Monroe parish. The St. Anthony Church was separated from the Monroe parish and acquired its own priest in 1929. After that, masses were held weekly and the size of the parish grew. Tolt's Catholic parishioners dug a new basement beneath the St. Anthony Church building in the early 1950s.
Bibliographic reference: Jones, Isabel L., ed., A History of Tolt/Carnation: A Town Remembered, (Snohomish, 1987) Tolt Historical Society, p. 62.
Note: Carnation was known as Tolt from its initial settlement until 1917, and again from 1928 to 1951.