<p>St. Thomas Episcopal Church is a historic church on Craven Street in Bath, North Carolina. The church building was constructed in 1734 and is the oldest surviving church building in North Carolina. It is a Flemish bond brick structure.</p><br>
<p>St. Thomas Parish was established soon after the founding of Bath County, North Carolina in 1696 with the original church parishioners meeting in homes. Around 1700 Rev. Thomas Bray, founder of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in England, mailed books to St Thomas Parish, founding the first public library in the colony.</p><br>
<p>The church building was constructed in 1734. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>St. Frances Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church located off NC 308 in Lewiston-Woodville, Bertie County, North Carolina, built in 1845.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Built by Thomas Bragg, Sr., it is a one-story, rectangular frame church, three bays by two bays, with a Greek Revival style interior. It features a projecting narthex and two-story tower topped by an octagonal steeple. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The church was built on three acres donated by Humphrey H. Hardy, with $1,000 bequeathed by Frances S. Pugh of Woodville, after whom the church was named. According to the 1894 memoirs of Dr. Charles Smallwood, a charter member, the church had been built by Thomas Bragg, Sr. of Warren County.</p><br>
<p>In 1896, as the Lewiston congregants outnumbered the Woodville congregants, the church was pulled by mule team three quarters of a mile to Lewiston, although the original cemetery remained in use. Bruce Lassiter, a local restoration contractor, commenced work soon thereafter, completing the restoration in 2004.</p><br>
<p>It was acquired in 2013 by Annette and Kim Ringeisen, who intended to use it as a wedding venue, but they relocated to California after only one season, and placed the church on the market.</p><br>
<p>Brown Marsh Presbyterian Church, also known as Clarkton Presbyterian Church, is a historic Presbyterian church in Clarkton, Bladen County, North Carolina. The church was organized prior to 1755 by early Scottish settlers. The current building was built in 1818, and is a small frame pre-Greek Revival style building. It is the oldest church in Bladen County.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Carvers Creek Methodist Church, also known as Carvers Creek United Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist church located near Council, Bladen County, North Carolina. It was built in 1859, and is a frame Greek Revival-style church with a pedimented front portico, and a two-story rear addition. It measures 40 feet across and 60 feet deep.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Purdie House and Purdie Methodist Church is a historic home and Methodist church located near Tar Heel, Bladen County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1803–1806, and is a two-story, four bay by two bay, brick Federal-style dwelling. It has a steep gable roof and two-story gallery porches. Purdie Methodist Church is a mid-19th century temple-form Greek Revival-style frame building.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Methodist Church, also known as Old Trinity Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist church and national historic district located at Broad and Lower Streets in Elizabethtown, Bladen County, North Carolina. It was built about 1848, and is a two-story, rectangular, frame Federal-style church. Surrounding the church on three sides is the church cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Gaston Chapel is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at 100 Bouchelle Street in Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. It was built from 1900 to 1911, and is a brick church building with a high-pitched hip roof and Late Gothic Revival style design influences. It features a Gothic-arched tripartite stained-glass window. It is the oldest extant, and first substantial, African-American church structure in Burke County.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Waldensian Presbyterian Church is a historic Waldensian church at 104 East Main Street in Valdese, Burke County, North Carolina.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1893, twenty-nine Waldenses from the Cottian Alps of Italy arrived in Burke County, North Carolina, to pave the way for several hundred other Waldensian immigrants. In 1897, the Waldensians began to construct a Romanesque-style church that would resemble those they left in Italy and France. The building was officially completed in 1899.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The congregation is a component of the Presbyterian Church (USA).</p><br>
<p>First Congregational Church is a historic Congregational church located in Mount Pleasant, Cabarrus County, North Carolina. It was built between 1918 and 1921, and consists of a</p><br>
<p>one-story side gable nave; a two-stage tower; a small, gabled-roof wing that is commonly referred to as the "serving room;" and two concrete additions. The church features stone sheathing and Gothic Revival style design details. The church served the African-American community of Mount Pleasant.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Rocky River Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located near Rocky River, Cabarrus County, North Carolina. The property includes the Greco-Italianate style brick church ; a frame Session House ; a small cemetery dating to 1814; and the two-story, brick Greek Revival and Italianate style Manse .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Mariah&#39;s Chapel is a historic United Methodist chapel located near Grandin, Caldwell County, North Carolina. It was built in 1879, and is a simple frame church building. It features a square belfry with a pyramidal roof and a needle spire. Also on the property is the contributing church cemetery with approximately 100 graves.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Griers Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery located near Frogsboro, Caswell County, North Carolina. It was built about 1856, and is a simple, rectangular frame building. It is an example of Greek Revival temple-form church architecture. Also on the property is a contributing church cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Red House Presbyterian Church, also known as Hugh McAden Gravesite or Red House Church, is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery located at 13409 NC 119 N in Semora, Caswell County, North Carolina. The Classical Revival red brick church building was constructed in 1913. It features a portico with four round, fluted wooden Doric order columns. Also on the property is a contributing church cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at 2nd Street and 3rd Avenue NW in Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina. It was built in 1905–1906, and is a Romanesque Revival-style church sheathed in granite. The front facade features square towers of unequal height. Attached to the church in 1928, is a three-story granite block Education Building with a flat roof and crenelated cornice. Also on the property is the former manse; a two-story, American Foursquare dwelling with a low hipped roof, overhanging eaves, and hipped dormer.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Grace Reformed Church, also known as Calvary Baptist Church , is a historic church located at 201–211 S. Main Avenue in Newton, Catawba County, North Carolina, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1887–1888, and is a Gothic Revival-style church building. It has a cruciform plan, steeply pitched gable roof, corner towers of unequal height, and lancet arched doors and windows. Attached to the church in 1927–1928, is a two-story Sunday School Building with a gable roof.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Ebenezer Methodist Church is a historic church located near Bells, Chatham County, North Carolina. It is located on the west side of SR 1008, about 0.5 mi north of its junction with SR 1975. It is a modest single-story wood-frame structure, with a steeply-pitched metal gable roof and weatherboard siding. It has Gothic Revival features, including a tower with Gothic-arched entrance openings. The sanctuary&#39;s windows, doors, and interior woodworking are original to the structure. It was built about 1890, for a Methodist congregation established in 1827.</p><br>
<p>The building listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>OKellys Chapel is a historic chapel located near Farrington, Chatham County, North Carolina. Named after Reverend James O&#39;Kelly, it was built about 1900. It is a modest one-room rural chapel with Gothic Revival features including a steeply pitched roof and lancet windows.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>O’Kelly Chapel was the home church of James O’Kelly, founder of the Christian Church. O’Kelly entered the ministry as a circuit-riding Methodist preacher in the 1780s. At that time, the Methodist Church was not an organized “denomination,” but a movement within the Church of England. After the American Revolution, these Methodist societies sought to break from England and form a church patterned after the hierarchical structure of the Church of England.</p><br>
<p>O’Kelly and others protested at the organizational conference that the church should not concentrate so much power in the bishop but be structured more democratically, with self-government for ministers and churches. O’Kelly envisioned “a republican, no-slavery posited that all Methodist ministers should manumit their slaves., glorious church” that would be congregationally based. The church was to reflect the democratic principles of the newly formed United States, organized into conferences with each pastor having equal authority and laymen having a voice, too.</p><br>
<p>Eventually, due to their deep convictions, O’Kelly, 36 other ministers, and 10,000 lay people pulled out of the Methodist church to form a church association called “Republican Methodists.” In 1794 these dissenters formally took the name “Christian” and agreed to be governed by five fundamental principles:</p><br>
<p>1. The Lord Jesus Christ is the only head of the Church.</p><br>
<p>2. “Christian” is a sufficient name for the Church.</p><br>
<p>3. The Holy Bible is a sufficient rule of faith and practice.</p><br>
<p>4. Christian character is a sufficient test of fellowship and membership.</p><br>
<p>5. The right of private judgment and liberty of conscience is a right of privilege of all.</p><br>
<p>O’Kelly, leader of the movement, moved in 1794 to Chatham County, North Carolina, and gathered a congregation which eventually took the name O’Kelly Chapel. In 1797, he began a congregation in Orange County known as the Damascus Christian Church. He also began Martha&#39;s Chapel in Apex in 1803. O’Kelly served these three congregations as a circuit-riding preacher for a number of years.</p><br>
<p>The Christian Church founded by O’Kelly was primarily a movement in eastern Virginia and the upper Piedmont of North Carolina. In time, other churches were started and there were mergers with other church groups, e.g., a group of dissenting Baptist churches in Vermont. Though never a large church movement, the Christian Connection (as these churches often referred to the larger structure) was a national connection.</p><br>
<p>The congregation first worshiped together in 1794, probably in O’Kellys home. In 1803, about two acres of land were given to the Christian Church on which to erect a church building. Over time, several different structures were built on the site. The current church, built in 1910 and shown above, is the fourth. Part of a cemetery with about 100 graves is also on the property. In 1968, the site was posted with a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker (see photo above) and listed in 1985 on the USA Department of the Interior, National Park Services National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Based on similar policies with emphasis on local autonomy, the Christian Church united in 1933 with the larger Congregational Church to form the Congregational Christian Church. With similar theological roots and claiming an ecumenical future for American Protestantism, the Evangelical and Reformed Church (from a German Calvinist heritage) and the Congregational Christian Church (with a mainly English Calvinist heritage) merged in 1957 to create the United Church of Christ.</p><br>
<h2>Other O&#39;Kelly churches</h2><br>
<p>In August 1794, a conference of dissident Methodists ministers meeting in Surry County, Virginia, finalized organization of a new denomination and adopted the name “Christian”. W. E. MacClenny in his 1910 biography of James O’Kelly, the denomination&#39;s founder, stated that the O’Kelly Chapel congregation in Chatham County was organized later that year and that it was the first new congregation formed by the Southern Christian denomination. It has not been possible to determine the exact date the first sanctuary was constructed; however, the original O’Kelly Chapel is “generally acknowledged to be the first church building erected by the southern Christians.” Before building churches, congregations in the new denomination worshipped in former Methodist meeting houses, structures abandoned by the Church of England, private homes, and public buildings such as courthouses and inns.</p><br>
<p>In 1922 The Southern Christian Convention merged with the American Christian Convention to form the General Convention of the Christian Church. A second merger in 1931—with the Congregational Church, (the Pilgrims of Plymouth Rock and Puritans of Massachusetts Bay), created the Congregational Christian Church. It merged in 1957 with the Evangelical and Reformed Church to form the United Church of Christ.</p><br>
<p>James O’Kelly is thought to have been born in Virginia about 1736. He married Elizabeth Meeks in 1759, and they had two children, John and William. James O’Kelly was listed as a homeowner in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, in 1787. When he led the withdrawal from the Methodist Church in 1792 - 1793, O’Kelly was the Methodist district superintendent in southern Virginia.</p><br>
<p>When did the O’Kellys move to North Carolina? There is evidence for James and Elizabeth O’Kelly&#39;s move to Chatham County between 1794 and 1807. One or both sons were already in North Carolina when the parents arrived. The younger son, William, had moved to Chatham County in the mid-eighties. The O’Kelly family purchased 101 acres near the site of O’Kelly Chapel in 1797 and an additional 19 acres in 1812. James and Elizabeth O’Kelly settled on the tract purchased in 1797, which William was farming.</p><br>
<p>The O’Kellys move may have been prompted by the need to be near family because of their age or health. However, after the move, O’Kelly continued to organize new churches, visit congregations and attend church conferences. MacClenny stated that in his last years O’Kelly delivered his sermons while seated. James O’Kelly died on October 16, 1826. He was buried in the family cemetery on the farm they had purchased in 1797 near O’Kellys Chapel.</p><br>
<p>In 1803 or earlier, O’Kelly organized a second Chatham County congregation, Marthas Chapel, five or six miles south of O’Kellys Chapel. That same year, John Scott executed a deed for one acre of land:to the said O’Kelly & the Christian Church collectively for the particular purpose of erecting a Meeting House to be occupied by way of preaching and expounding the Word of the Lord.Having secured title to the property, the Marthas Chapel congregation probably built the first sanctuary in 1803 or 1804.Rural congregations in the early nineteenth century were small, their size limited by the distance worshipers could travel by foot, horseback or wagon to attend a mid-day service and return home before dark. The two churches, Martha’s Chapel, and O’Kelly Chapel, five or six miles apart, easily could share the pastoral services of the aging O’Kelly whose home was a short distance from O’Kelly Chapel. Both congregations remained active after O’Kelly’s death in 1826. Researchers can track Martha’s Chapel in the minutes of their association’s annual meeting published in the Southern Christian Church’s annual report, The Christian Annual, beginning in 1870 with the earliest surviving issue, and after 1957 in the United Church of Christ’s Yearbooks. Each year churches reported the number of active members, the number of members added and removed from the church roll, church school enrollment, and the expenditures for benevolences and local church needs. The reports included the names of pastors and the year they were called to the church. Random checks reveal that Martha’s Chapel had thirty-two members in 1876, sixty-two in 1913, ninety-four in 1934, and sixty-four in 1955. In its last recorded report to the Southern Conference of the United Church of Christ in 1972, Martha’s Chapel reported fifty-six members. Martha’s Chapel ceased its affiliation with the Southern Conference of the United Church of Christ in 1972 or 1973. The more conservative doctrine and social views held by many who were members of former Southern Christian and Reformed churches clashed with the liberal heritage of the Congregational Church. A case in point was the UCCs role in the Wilmington racial protests in the nineteen-seventies. In 1972 African-American students boycotted Wilmington schools, protesting the closing of the city&#39;s all-black high school and the handling of school integration. The integrated Congregational United Church of Christ became the gathering place for the protesters. The national UCC Commission on Racial Justice sent a young staff member, Ben Chavis, to Wilmington to organize and provide structure for the student protesters. Chavis and nine other individuals (The “Wilmington Ten”) were convicted of bombing a grocery store and conspiracy to assault responding emergency personnel. The trial received national attention and a number of churches left the denomination obscuring their connection with James O’Kelly in historical memory.</p><br>
<p>~ George Troxler, January 29, 2018</p><br>
<h2>Decommissioning</h2><br>
<p>O’Kellys Chapel church was formed and a worship house built on the site in 1794 after James O’Kelly departed the Methodist Church. The structure that currently sits on the property on NC 751 in northern Chatham County is the fourth structure to be erected there. The ministry on that site was guided by the “creed”, if it can be called that, of each person having “liberty of conscience,” the right and responsibility to interpret scripture in his or her own way so long as such did not violate Gods law. When the Congregational Christian Churches merged with the Evangelical and Reformed Church to become the United Church of Christ (1957) the chapel became the property of the Southern Conference of the UCC.</p><br>
<p>Sometime in the early 1980s worship services ceased being held on a regular basis in O’Kellys Chapel. Occasional weddings, confirmation classes and holiday services occupied the chapel in meaningful ways, yet even those diminished over time. The building fell into disrepair. The Southern Conference Board of Directors initiated a discernment process in 2013 to determine the chapels future. Since there was no money or interest in repairing or improving the building, the Board decided in 2016 to sell the property.</p><br>
<p>A sale was agreed upon to For Garden&#39;s Sake, a landscape and garden supply business located immediately south of the chapel. The new owners have no plans to raze the building and continue to explore options that would encourage community involvement. Southern Conference leaders hope that the chapel can be preserved and stand as a reminder to the ministry and service of James O’Kelly.</p><br>
<p>On July 29, 2018, a decommissioning ceremony was held in the chapel to convert the land and chapel to secular use. A dozen UCC members attended, including members from Pilgrim UCC in Durham, United Church of Chapel Hill, the Southern Conference Board of Directors, the pastor of United Church of Chapel Hill and other interested persons. The brief service included some discussion of history, the abolition movement, the creation of black churches in this faith tradition as well as some stories from recent visits to the chapel by past congregants. At the conclusion of the service, a hymn penned by James O&#39;Kelly (hymn 617 in the New Century Hymnal) was sung, composed to the tune of Amazing Grace.</p><br>
<p>Christ Episcopal Church and Parish House is a historic Episcopal church located at 320 Pollock Street in New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built in 1871, incorporating the brick shell of the previous church built in 1824. It is a brick church building in a restrained Gothic Revival style. The original brickwork of the nave is laid in Flemish bond. It features a three-stage entrance tower, with a pyramidal roof and octagonal spire. Beneath the tower is a Stick Style entrance porch added in 1884. The parish house was built between 1904 and 1908, and is a two-story, three bay by five bay, rectangular red brick building with a steep slate gable roof.</p><br>
<p>A five-piece communion service, the gift of George II, is on secure display in the church when not in use. There is a chalice, paten/cover, two flagons, and a basin for receiving the offering. All pieces bear the royal arms and are completely hallmarked for London, 1752, maker Mordecai Fox.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship located at Middle Street and Church Alley in New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built in 1848, and is a rectangular brick church building in the Gothic Revival style. It features a two-stage, turreted entrance tower. Its brickwork is laid in Flemish bond.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church and Churchyard is a historic Presbyterian church on New Street between Middle and Hancock Streets in New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built in 1820, and is a rectangular frame church building with two tiers of windows. It features a tetrastyle pedimented Ionic order portico and projecting four stage tower topped by an arcaded octagonal belfry. During the Civil War, the church was converted into a military hospital by the Union forces.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Mount Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church is a historic African-American Baptist church in New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built in 1924, and is a one-story, rectangular brick church building on a raised basement in the Late Gothic Revival style. It features a tall projecting, corner tower. A two-story addition for Sunday School classrooms, a kitchen, and dining area was built in the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Rue Chapel AME Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at 709 Oak Street in New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built in 1941, and is a rectangular brick church building in the Late Gothic Revival style. It features a gabled nave flanked by corner entrance towers. Also on the property is the contributing parsonage; a one-story, front-gable brick house of the American Craftsman style dated to the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>St. John&#39;s Missionary Baptist Church is a historic African-American Baptist church at 1130 Walt Bellamy Drive in New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina, United States. It was built in 1926, and is a rectangular brick church building on a raised basement in the Classical Revival style. It features a three-stage central entrance tower. It is believed to be the oldest black Baptist congregation in New Bern.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>St. Peter&#39;s AME Zion Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at 615 Queen Street in New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built between 1923 and 1942, on the site of the 1914 church building which was destroyed by fire in 1922. It is a large three bay by seven bay, rectangular brick church building in the Late Gothic Revival style. It features a gabled nave flanked by two-story truncated stair towers. Also on the property is the contributing 1926 parsonage; a -story, frame American Craftsman style dwelling. It is known within the denomination as the "Mother Church of Zion Methodism in the South," and the oldest existing African Methodist Episcopal congregation in the South.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Big Rockfish Presbyterian Church is an historic Presbyterian church located at Hope Mills, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1855, and is a two-story, three bay by four bay, gable-end frame building with double front entrances in the vernacular Greek Revival style.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Worship still continues each Sunday at 11AM with education hour at 10AM. The church hosts many special events throughout the year for different ages and for the community. The church is alongside Highway 301 (I-95 Business) Northbound side, Marracco St is the service road. The church is at the corner with McNeil St. 0.7 miles north of the Highway 59 Overpass.</p><br>
<p>It is part of The Presbyterian Church USA and the Presbytery of Coastal Carolina.</p><br>
<p>The church has an historic cemetery. Some details about the cemetery are online.</p><br>
<p>The church is referred to in a short story by Charles W. Chesnutt entitled "The Marked Tree," where a young man attends this church and becomes very religious while dating a local Rockfish belle he later marries.</p><br>
<p>Camp Ground Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church on Camp Ground Road in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built between 1858 and 1862, and is a two-story, four bay by five bay, gable-end frame building with double front entrances in the vernacular Greek Revival style. The site was originally used for seasonal camp meetings but the building served as a permanent home for a congregation. The building was moved back from the road to make room for the new church building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Cape Fear Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church near Hope Mills in Grays Creek Township, Cumberland County, North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>Cape Fear Baptist Church is on Butler Nursery Road in rural Cumberland County, North Carolina. The church was established in 1756 as Particular Baptist Church. The current sanctuary was constructed in 1859. It is a two-story frame gable-roof building with a monumental Greek Revival style two-story pedimented front portico.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>St. Louis, Besancon, Historic District is a historic Roman Catholic church complex and national historic district located near New Haven in Jefferson Township, Allen County, Indiana. The district encompasses five contributing buildings and one contributing site consisting of the Saint Louis Besancon Roman Catholic Church and its cemetery and rectory. The Gothic Revival style church was built in 1870-71 of brick, fired in a nearby kiln, then covered with cement to give an appearance of stone. It features a steep gable roof and five part projecting square steeple. The rectory was built in 1893, and is a -story, Queen Anne style brick dwelling. The other contributing resources are the St. Louis Academy , St. Louis Convent House , garage , and Old St. Louis Cemetery. The church was refurbished and painted in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church Complex is a historic Polish, Roman Catholic and former church located at Niagara Falls in Niagara County, New York within the Diocese of Buffalo.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The complex was constructed between 1906 and 1914 and consists of the church, school, rectory, convent, and garage. The church is built of random course stone walls and has a steeply pitched, slate shingled gable roof. It features a central facade tower with spire and Romanesque Revival detailing.</p><br>
<p>The complex was purchased by a not-for-profit group, Niagara Heritage of Hope and Service, in 2009. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The East River Road–North Hickory Canal Bridge is a bridge located on East River Road over the North Hickory Canal, connecting Grosse Ile, Michigan with Hickory Island to the south. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the early part of the 20th century, the East River Road bridge over the North Hickory Canal was a timber structure. In 1944, the Wayne County Road Commission formulated plans to widen and straighten the southern section of road, moving it to the west. The original bridge was replaced with this structure, completed in 1945.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The East River Road–North Hickory Canal Bridge is 64 ft long with a main span length of 24 ft. The bridge is continuous concrete slab bridge. Wayne County used this type of bridge in the years during and after World War II, presumably because of the difficulty of obtaining steel during these years. The bridge has solid concrete parapet railings embedded with a pebble aggregate and trimmed with a horizontal line. The ends of the railings curve to follow the perpendicular wing walls. The piles of the bridge are octagonal, part of the road commission&#39;s continuous experimentation with bridge design.</p><br>
<p>The South Pointe Drive–Frenchmans Creek Bridge is a bridge located on South Pointe Drive over Frenchmans Creek in Grosse Ile, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the mid-1930s, the Wayne County Road Commission took ownership of a timber trestle bridge spanning Frenchman&#39;s Creek. The commission planned to replace the deck planking of the bridge, but a preliminary inspection showed that the entire structure was substantially weakened due to dry rot, and an immediate replacement was required. Being short of funds, the road commission tapped the labor force of the Works Progress Administration.</p><br>
<p>The bridge designed is a concrete T-beam with 40-foot span. Wood forms from another WPA project were used to shape the deck, and the construction of the new bridge was completed in 1939. The original bridge had a decorative balustrade along each side.</p><br>
<p>The Gibraltar Road–Waterway Canal Bridge is a bridge located on Gibraltar Road over the Waterway Canal in Gibraltar, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Wayne County Road Commission paved a section of Gibraltar Road in the early 1930s, and constructed a number of new bridges, including this one, during the project.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Gibraltar Road Bridge is a reinforced-concrete cantilevered-arch bridge A concrete balustrade with urn-shaped spindles flanks the roadway.</p><br>
<p>The bridge itself is of a rare cantilevered concrete arch design. The traditional arch bridge design requires a complete arch; in contrast, the cantilevered arch design is divided into two structurally independent half-arches which are each cantilevered from one side. A slab is suspended between the two cantilevered sections; in the Gibraltar Road Bridge, this section is 9 feet long. Close inspection of side walls of the bridge reveals two seams marking the end of the cantilevered arms.</p><br>
<p>After construction, the Wayne County Road Commissioners noted that "this low sweeping arch bridge is in keeping with its surroundings and is one of the features which make Gibraltar Road so attractive."</p><br>
<p>The Gainestown Methodist Church and Cemetery is a historic United Methodist Church building and its adjacent cemetery in Gainestown, Alabama, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 28, 1999, due to its architectural significance.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Gainestown Methodist Church was founded in 1819 by Reverend Joshua Wilson. A two-story church building was constructed in 1854 with the church auditorium on the lower floor and a Masonic lodge meeting room on the upper. That building was severely damaged by a tornado in 1911. It was rebuilt in that same year as a one-story building, using as much salvaged material from the original building as was possible.</p><br>
<p>The Elisha Sharp House is a house in Ten Mile, Tennessee. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 6, 1982.</p><br>
<p>Elisha Sharp was born July 25, 1792, and died December 6, 1863. In 1817, he married Elinore Ellen Huff (also spelled “Elinor” and “Eleanor”) (1801–1874). She was sixteen years old, and he was twenty five. They came to Meigs County sometime between 1816 and 1822 (known as Rhea County until 1836). Elisha Sharp was a large landowner and one of six original county commissioners of Meigs County. In 1836, Sharp served as a second lieutenant within the first division of the East Tennessee guard under Brigadier General John E. Wool. Assembled to battle against the Cherokee Nation, the units were sent home in November 1836, since some sort of temporary compromise was made with the Cherokees. Sharp later joined the Confederate Army.</p><br>
<p>The Sharp cemetery is located just around the corner from the Sharp House, on Union Grove Road, also known as county road 508. The earliest headstone still in this cemetery is dated 1830. Most of the gravestones are of the Sharp family, though there are also about six from the Culvahouses, a family who, until roughly 1955, owned the farm on highway 58, west of the Sharp-Wasson-Worth House. The Elisha Sharp House is located on Old Ten Mile Road, which was once a stage coach route that connected Knoxville and Kingston, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The Sharp House was built between 1820 and 1830, probably after 1825, and is located about 12 mi north of Decatur, Tennessee. The Sharp farm was around 226 acre. Elisha Sharp owned it for around 61 years, from 1816 to 1877. In 1877, the Wasson family purchased it, and owned it until 1932 or 1938. Near this time, electric lines were installed in the area. There were two additional owners between 1938 and 1955.</p><br>
<p>In 1955, the Sharp House was purchased by James Archibald (aka “J.A.” and “Nub”) Worth, originally from Sevier County, Tennessee. J.A. Worth was a health physicist for Oak Ridge National Laboratories, and later worked at their test site in Arizona to help assess health problems associated with radioactivity exposure. He married Nell Jeanette Fields Worth in 1957, though they did not move to the Sharp House until 1959, when they came to Meigs County from Campbell County. The Worths raised cattle on the surrounding farm for over forty years. J.A. Worth died in 1999,Johnny, Hutshell-Royster, “$100,000 gift gives museum a boost,” The Daily Post-Athenian (Thursday, February 15, 2001); and Atchley Funeral Home Records, Volume IV, 1987-1999, Larry D. Fox, (Smoky Mountain Historical Society), 20 Mar 1999.</p><br>
<p>James Archibald Worth obituary and Nell Worth sold the house and farm to Jerry Swanks, a neighbor and also a farmer, in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Sharp House was made with bricks, fired in a home kiln. The bricks were made from clay that was most likely taken out of the bank of Hurricane Creek, just few yards away from the house. The interior walls throughout the first floor are about 2 ft thick.</p><br>
<p>Little is known about the slaves owned by Elisha Sharp. In a case wherein Elisha Sharp was named as a defendant, it is stated that in 1832 he purchased a woman named Amy (then twenty years old and pregnant), and her children Phillip (age 5), Betsy (age 4). Her child Nancy was born afterwards. It is unknown if this enslaved family lived on the Sharp farm. Amy was the daughter of a woman named Nan. The case challenged Sharps right to purchase Amy and her children, because the claimants argued that Amy belonged to the estate of a prior owner, and the woman who sold her and her children had no right to sell them to Sharp. The claimants not only accused him of buying the slaves improperly, but that he knew the sale was illegal and even kept the slaves hidden after the sale. Sharp later claimed that he subsequently sold the family to an unknown slave trader in 1836, and had no knowledge of the familys subsequent whereabouts.</p><br>
<p>A few names of other slaves owned by Elisha Sharp can be gleaned from his will. Tom, Guy, Alexander, Sally, Susan, Martha, Nancy, and Alley, French, Townley and Joseph, Daniel, Simon, Taylor and Nep are all bequeathed to various relatives. Sharp must have owned other unnamed persons—or presumed he would own (acquired through purchase, birth from presently ownedslaves, or inherit), other slaves at the time of his death—because he also bequeaths all slaves not named within the will to his children and grandchildren. The will was dated March 4, 1863, and probated April 3, 1865.</p><br>
<p>During the Civil War, Elisha Sharp died on December 6, 1863, as a result of a gunshot wound he had suffered approximately two months earlier. He was shot in front of the front door (in 1863 the house had no porch) of the Sharp House. Sharp was shot by Isaac Preston Knight (1834–1907), a local man from Meigs County, who was a union soldier on leave. Apparently, Elisha Sharp had directed his rebel soldiers to steal tools. When Elisha Sharp did not return the tools, apparently some owned by Knight&#39;s father, Knight shot him. Other sources confirm Knight was a union soldier, from April 1863, to August 1864. Sharp is said to have lived for two months before he died. The Knights went west after Mr. Sharp was killed.</p><br>
<p>In the 1960s, while pulling down old wallpaper in the upstairs bedroom above the downstairs living room of the Sharp House, Nell Worth found the following inscription on the wall above the fireplace.</p><br>
<p>“Remember Me for I may be in these</p><br>
<p>Western hills where men folks are free</p><br>
<p>Yours respect.</p><br>
<p>Moulton Wood</p><br>
<p>August 28, 1898”</p><br>
<p>In 1898, the time of the inscription, the home was owned by the Wassons. It is still on the wall as of August 2010, along with the strips of wallpaper that Nell Worth decided not to change for fear of damaging the inscription.</p><br>
<h2>Quilt</h2><br>
<p>In 1985, the FCE Club (“Family and Community Education”) began a large quilt for a state project, the Tennessee “Homecoming 1986.” The house is one of 14 sites representing the early history of Meigs County that are depicted on the quilt. The quilt now hangs in the Meigs County Historical Museum, in Decatur, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>Evans Metropolitan AME Zion Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at 301 N. Cool Spring Street in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1893–1894, and is a five bay, rectangular brick building in the Gothic Revival style. The front facade features flanking towers. Also on the property is a contributing house built in 1913 used as an office/administration building. It is a two-story frame house with a hipped roof and wraparound porch.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at Ann and Bow Streets in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1832, incorporating parts of the brick walls of an earlier  church that burned in 1831. It is a two-story gabled brick building, five bays wide and five wider bays deep. Its brickwork is laid in Flemish bond. The chancel, portico, steeple and most of the interior woodwork are later additions and replacements. The hexastyle portico and steeple were designed by Hobart Upjohn in 1922.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Old Bluff Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located near Wade, Cumberland County, North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>The church congregation was founded in 1758. Later its pastor was the Rev. John McLeod, who came from the Isle of Skye, Scotland, in 1770. He was accompanied by many families of Highland Scots. In 1858 the congregation dedicated a new church building constructed in the Greek Revival style.</p><br>
<p>The church is a plain, weatherboarded building with details that appear to be neoclassical moldings, including drill work suggesting triglyphs, dentils, and egg-and-dart, on the frieze and pediment. It is a large Greek Revival style temple form building. It features a two-story, five-bay tetrastyle porch in antis.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic black Episcopal church complex located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. Its historic church at Ramsey and Moore Streets was built in 1896. It is a low, shingled, Queen Anne style frame church with English Gothic and Spanish accents. It features a three-part stained glass window, deeply projecting semi-octagonal chancel, and steeply pitched main roof with exposed rafters. Also on the property are the contributing Parish House and Parsonage. It was chartered in 1873, and is the second oldest Episcopal congregation in Fayetteville.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>As of 2023, Rev. Skip Walker is the current priest in charge at St. Josephs.</p><br>
<p>Abbott&#39;s Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery is a historic Primitive Baptist church cemetery near Thomasville, Davidson County, North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>There are approximately 450 gravestones, with the earliest headstone dating to 1795. Around one dozen unmarked field stones may date even earlier. The 351 locally manufactured gravestones makes it the largest such group in Davidson County, North Carolina. All of the epitaphs are inscribed in English because of the English and Scotch-Irish settlers who were members of the church. This was in spite of the headstones being cut by local German stonecutters.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Becks Reformed Church Cemetery  is a historic church cemetery located in Lexington, Davidson County, North Carolina. It contains approximately 100 burials, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1771. It is associated with the Becks Lutheran and Reformed Church, founded in 1787. It features a unique collection of folk gravestones by local stonecutters erected in Davidson County in the late-18th and first half of the 19th centuries.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Bethany United Church of Christ Cemetery is a historic church cemetery formerly known as Bethany Reformed and Lutheran Church near Midway, Davidson County, North Carolina. It contains approximately 400 gravestones, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1781. It features a unique collection of folk gravestones by local stonecutters erected in Davidson County in the late-18th and first half of the 19th centuries.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Beulah Church of Christ Cemetery is a historic church cemetery associated with the Beulah Church of Christ near Welcome, Davidson County, North Carolina. It contains approximately 100 gravestones, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1799. It features a unique collection of folk gravestones by local stonecutters erected in Davidson County in the late-18th and first half of the 19th centuries.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Emanuel United Church of Christ Cemetery is a historic church cemetery associated with the Emanuel United Church of Christ near Thomasville, Davidson County, North Carolina. It contains approximately 500 gravestones, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1808. It features a unique collection of folk gravestones by local stonecutters erected in Davidson County in the late-18th and first half of the 19th centuries.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Fair Grove Methodist Church Cemetery is a historic church cemetery associated with the Fair Grove Methodist Church at Thomasville, Davidson County, North Carolina. It contains approximately 400 gravestones, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1829. It features a unique collection of folk gravestones by local stonecutters erected in Davidson County in the late-18th and first half of the 19th centuries.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>First Reformed Church, also known as the First Reformed United Church of Christ, is a historic Reformed church located at 22 E. Center Street in Lexington, Davidson County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect Herbert B. Hunter and built in 1927–1928. It is a steel frame building sheathed in tapestry brick, with a Late Gothic Revival-style interior. It features a pair of corner towers of uneven height, pointed-arched portal, and a stone and stained glass rose window.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Grace Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 419 S. Main Street in Lexington, Davidson County, North Carolina. It was built in 1902, and is a one-story, Late Gothic Revival-style red brick building. It features a steeply pitched gable roof, lancet-arched doors and windows, buttresses, a front corner bell tower, and a three-part stained-glass window produced by Tiffany Studios in 1918.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Seip House is a historic building on the west side of Chillicothe, Ohio, United States. Built in 1895, it is among the city&#39;s grandest houses.</p><br>
<p>Born in Germany in the late 1810s, Charles Seip was a butcher who settled in the United States in 1845. Soon after crossing the Atlantic, Seip took up residence in Chillicothe; he soon began operating a butcher shop on Allen Avenue, married, and became prosperous. As his business grew, Seip expanded into downtown premises and began to purchase farms in the Chillicothe vicinity in order to supply more animals for his business.</p><br>
<p>By the 1890s, Seip&#39;s son John had persuaded his father to erect a large house on the site of his original butcher shop. The resulting building took four years to complete, being started in 1895 and completed in 1898. A two-and-a-half story building, designed by John Cook, it is a brick building that sits on a sandstone foundation; its roof, covered with slates, is a hip roof that rises to the center of the house.</p><br>
<p>At his death in 1902, Seip owned some of the leading properties in Ross County. His house was one of the most prominent Queen Anne homes in Chillicothe, and he owned seven different farms in the region. Since that time, the house has changed hands; in 1955, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources purchased the house and converted it into offices for its regional forestry headquarters. In recognition of its historic architecture, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<p>Hedrick&#39;s Grove Reformed United Church of Christ is a historic Reformed church located near Lexington, Davidson County, North Carolina. It was established in 1891. The current sanctuary was built in 1921–1922, and is a large Romanesque Revival-style brick structure. It features a pair of corner towers of uneven height joined by a central arcaded loggia. Also on the property is a contributing church cemetery with approximately 375 graves.</p><br>
<p>The sanctuary was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Located directly behind the sanctuary is the Educational Building, which holds Sunday School classrooms, offices, and a Fellowship Hall.</p><br>
<p>The South Salem Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge in northwestern Ross County, Ohio, United States. It was built in the 1870s and has been designated a historic site because of its well-preserved historic engineering.</p><br>
<p>In 1975, the bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its historically significant engineering. Key to its significance is its unique status: all other covered bridges in Ross County have been destroyed, leaving the South Salem bridge standing alone.</p><br>
<p>Jersey Settlement Meeting House, also known as Jersey Baptist Church, is a historic church and meeting house located near Linwood, Davidson County, North Carolina. The Baptist congregation was founded around 1755 by settlers from New Jersey. Among them was Benjamin Merrill, a local leader in the Regulator movement from 1765 to 1771, who was captured and executed following the Battle of Alamance.</p><br>
<p>The current Greek Revival church meeting house was built in 1842 near the Jersey Baptist Church Cemetery. It is a rectangular gable-front brick building, four bays long and two bays wide. A belfry was added in 1897-1899 and a portico in 1945.</p><br>
<p>The meeting house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
