<p>The First Presbyterian Church is a historic church at 471 Main Street in Highlands, North Carolina. The single story wood-frame church was built in 1883–85, and occupies a prominent site in downtown Highlands, surrounded by a period picket fence. It is the oldest church in the city, and was built by Marion Wright, a local master builder. It is stylistically a vernacular interpretation of Italianate architecture, which is most prominent in its belfry tower, which features a flared roof with extended bracketed eaves.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Saint Agnes Episcopal Church is a historic building located in Franklin, North Carolina, United States. It is a Chapel of All Saints Episcopal Church. From 1888 until 2014 St. Agnes was its own Episcopal Parish but in November of that year it officially merged with St. Cyprians Episcopal Church to form an entirely new parish: All Saints Episcopal Church. All Saints is one congregation making use of two buildings: St. Agnes Chapel and St. Cyprians Chapel. They use their website and Facebook to publish their worship schedule and keep parishioners and visitors up to date on where worship will be each Sunday.</p><br>
<p>The Chapel is an historic redbrick Gothic Revival Episcopal church building located at 66 Church Street in Franklin, Macon County, North Carolina. Built in 1888, it was designed by architect William Gould Bulgin. The Rev. John A. Deal, the first Episcopal missioner in Macon County, was responsible for founding Saint Agnes as well as Incarnation in Highlands. On June 4, 1987, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>California Creek Missionary Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church located near Mars Hill, Madison County, North Carolina. It was built in 1917, and moved to its present location in 1937. It is a Gothic Revival style white frame church with Colonial Revival style decorative elements. It has a cruciform plan and paired principal entrances in corner towers on the front facade. A two-story, brick Sunday School annex was built in 1954. The church was sold to private owners in the late-1970s.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Dorland Memorial Presbyterian Church is historic Presbyterian church located on Bridge Street at Meadow Lane in Hot Springs, Madison County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect Richard Sharp Smith and built in 1900. It is a cruciform plan church with a splayed, gable roof, pebbledash exterior, and Gothic windows. Atop the roof is a four sided belfry surmounted by an octagonal steeple.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Bear Grass Primitive Baptist Church is a historic Primitive Baptist church located on the north side NC 1001, 0.1 miles north of the junction with NC 1106 in Bear Grass, Martin County, North Carolina. It was built in 1877, and is a front-gable, two-bay frame building. The building measures 42 feet, 2 3/4 inches, wide and 64 feet, 4 1/2 inches deep. It rests on a brick pier foundation and it is believed that parts of the earlier building are incorporated into the current edifice.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Everetts Church of Christ, also known as Everetts Christian Church, is a historic Disciples of Christ  church located at 109 S. Broad Street in Everetts, Martin County, North Carolina. It was built in 1923, and is a one-story, brick-veneered, Romanesque Revival building. The front facade features three arched stained-glass windows and a two-story bell tower.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The senior pastor is Rev. Dr. Tony Warren, author of the highly acclaimed devotional book, Footsteps of Recovery The mailing address is Everetts Christian Church, PO Box 245, Everetts, NC 27828.</p><br>
<p>First Christian Church, also known as First Church of Christ, is an historic Disciples of Christ  church located at 126 S. Main Street in Robersonville, North Carolina, Martin County, North Carolina and was built in 1913. It is a one-story, brick-veneered, Romanesque Revival building with a cross-gable facade. The front facade features three arched stained-glass windows and a two-story corner bell tower. Also on the property is a contributing church cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Jamesville Primitive Baptist Church and Cemetery, also known as Jamesville Womens Club, is a historic Primitive Baptist church and cemetery located on the east side of NC 171 in Jamesville, Martin County, North Carolina. It was built between 1865 and 1870, and is a rectangular one-story frame building with gable-front roof. It is two-bays wide and three bays deep and is sheathed with plain weatherboards. The Jamesville Womens Club acquired the building and its lot in 1953.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Oak City Christian Church, also known as Oak City Christian Church, Disciples of Christ, is a historic Christian Church   church located at 310 W. Commerce Street in Oak City, Martin County, North Carolina. It was built in 1921, and is a one-story, frame, weatherboarded, Gothic Revival style building. It features five lancet-arched stained-glass windows, a two-story bell tower with a broached hexagonal roof, and a hip-roofed porch.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Robersonville Primitive Baptist Church  is a historic Primitive Baptist church building at 107 N. Outerbridge Street in Robersonville, North Carolina that currently houses a museum of southern folk art.</p><br>
<p>The Gothic Revival building was originally constructed in 1910 as a Primitive Baptist church building for the congregation, founded in 1883. The building was later restored in the 1990s by Dr. Everette James and is now home to the St. James Place Museum.</p><br>
<h2>St. James Place Museum</h2><br>
<p>The museum now houses original furnishings, southern folk art, and antique duck decoys. More than 100 North Carolina quilts, including 42 African-American examples, and hundreds of pieces of North Carolina pottery are exhibited. The museum is open year-round daily by appointment. Visitors may schedule free tours through the Robersonville Town Library. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Skewarkey Primitive Baptist Church is a historic Primitive Baptist church located near Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina. It was built in 1858–1859, and is a one-story, front-gable timber-frame building in a simply rendered Greek Revival style. The building measures just over 60 feet deep and 40 feet wide. Located on the property is the contributing church cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Smithwicks Creek Primitive Baptist Church is a historic Primitive Baptist church located near Farm Life, Martin County, North Carolina. It was built about 1897, and is a front-gable, unadorned frame building. The building measures 44 feet, 4 inches, wide and 60 feet, 4 inches deep. Also on the property is the former Smithwicks Creek Baptismal House, built in 1892 and moved to site November 2003.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Spring Green Primitive Baptist Church is a historic Primitive Baptist church located near Hamilton, Martin County, North Carolina. It was built in 1878, and is a front-gable, frame building with late Greek Revival style design elements. The building measures 36 feet, 4 inches, wide and 55 feet, 4 1/2 inches deep. Also on the property is the contributing church cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>East Avenue Tabernacle Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, also known as the Great Aunt Stella Center, is a historic Associate Reformed Presbyterian church located at 927 Elizabeth Street in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect James M. McMichael in a Classical Revival style. It consists of a two-story sanctuary, built in 1914, and a four-story educational wing added to the south side of the sanctuary in 1925. The sanctuary has a Greek cross plan with a central octagon with shallow two-story wings that terminate in low parapeted walls. The sanctuary is topped by a copper dome and has a monumental porch with a brick pediment. In 1998 East Avenue Tabernacle merged with the Craig Avenue Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. Ultimately the church became the Craig Avenue Tabernacle A.R.P. Church. Thus ironically through the years the name changed from East to Craig Avenue. The building now houses a community center and charter school.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at 200 W. Trade Street in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was built in 1857, and is a one-story, Gothic Revival style stuccoed brick building. The original spire was rebuilt in 1883-1884 and the side and rear walls of the church were taken down and a new structure was erected in 1894–1895.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Grace A.M.E. Zion Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Zion church located in what was once the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was built in 1901–1902, and is a Gothic Revival style brick church. The front facade features two crenellated entry towers of unequal height with matching Gothic arched entrances. It is one of the oldest of the remaining African American churches associated with Charlotte&#39;s historic black districts.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008 and is at 219-223 S. Brevard Street. The congregation relocated when Brooklyn was razed in the 1960s for an urban renewal program. The church is one of the few remaining buildings in the area from the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>The church was designed by the Charlotte architectural firm of Hayden, Wheeler and Schwend and built by contractor William W. Smith, an African American.</p><br>
<p>Hopewell Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church complex and national historic district located near Huntersville, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The church was built in 1833–1835, renovated and enlarged in 1859–1860, and expanded by a Sunday School addition in 1928. It is a U-shaped brick and brick veneer building composed of three connected blocks all covered with front-gable roofs. The church is a rectangular gable-front brick building standing on a low mortared fieldstone foundation and Greek Revival style design elements. Also on the property are the contributing pumphouse , cemetery gate , and cemetery with burials dating to 1775. The cemetery contains one of the two largest collections of box and chest tombs in North Carolina. General William Lee Davidson of the North Carolina militia, killed in 1781 at the Battle of Cowan&#39;s Ford during the American Revolutionary War, is buried in the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Providence Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery located at 10140 Providence Road in Matthews, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The church was built in 1858, and is a rectangular, gable-front Greek Revival style frame building. It is three bays wide and four bays deep on a low stone foundation and features extraordinarily tall window openings on all four sides. Adjacent to the church is the contributing church cemetery, with the oldest grave marker dated 1764. Providence Presbyterian Church, the oldest intact and only antebellum frame church in Mecklenburg County.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Providence Presbyterian Church came to life from the influx of Ulster Scots to the American ‘promised land’ in the 1700s, a group of people shaped by faith and the idea of a new frontier. They migrated south, took part in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars and established deep roots in Mecklenburg County. It’s no surprise that Providence Road – one of Charlotte’s main thoroughfares – takes its name from our church while other roads, such as Rea Road and McKee Road, are named for members of the PPC congregation over the past 250+ years.</p><br>
<p>‘Providence’ expresses the founders’ firm trust in the faithfulness of God to work all things for God’s purpose, which is a bedrock tenant of their Presbyterian faith. One of the original seven colonial Presbyterian churches in the county, PPC served as the center of the Providence Community. Though that community has grown exponentially over the years as Charlotte has become more and more populated, the same could also be said of the church today: it still sits at the center of many of the community member’s lives.</p><br>
<p>Starting with their first minister Rev. William Richardson 1767, to today’s Senior Pastor Walt McCanless, Providence Presbyterian Church has had its fair share of servant leaders. Many worked to grow our congregation from one generation to the next— through times of want and times of wealth. Among those were enslaved communicants who, though denied full membership in the church, contributed much to it during the time prior to the Emancipation Proclamation. They were instrumental in building the “new” sanctuary of 1858. This is the historic building where they continue to meet for worship today.</p><br>
<p>They welcome members and visitors alike to share in worship and connect to God’s people and purpose. A wonderful side benefit of visiting them is the opportunity to stroll a property rich in history. The Providence first ‘pulpit,’ also known as Preaching Rock is at the entrance to the cemetery, where markers pre date the Revolutionary War. As one continues through the back gate, folks can visit the historic enslaved cemetery, a sad reminder of a dark period of our history. This path leads to the nearby spring that first drew worshipers to this spot and provided water for baptisms, as well as drinking water for people and their horses.</p><br>
<p>History is too valuable a teacher to be forgotten. Providence Presbyterian Church seeks to learn and grow from the lived faith of Providence’s fathers and mothers. And where their lived experiences were less than consistent with the gospel, reflecting instead their cultural milieu, they seek forgiveness and reconciliation.</p><br>
<p>Ramah Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery located near Huntersville, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The current church sanctuary was built in 1881, and is a rectangular, gable-front vernacular Greek Revival / Italianate style frame building. It is three bays wide and has segmental-arched, double-hung sash windows and a tall rectangular and segmental-arched louvered vent. Also on the property is a one-story, log Fellowship Building built in 1935. The cemetery contains approximately 500 burials, with the oldest dating to about 1800.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Steele Creek Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church complex and national historic district located near Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The church was founded in 1760 and the current sanctuary was built in 1889, and is a rectangular, Gothic Revival style brick building. It is five bays wide and six bays deep, and has pointed-arched sash windows, shallow buttresses, and steeply pitched roof parapet. The cemetery contains approximately 1,700 headstones, with the oldest dating to 1763.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Bethesda Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located on NC 5 in Aberdeen, Moore County, North Carolina. It was built in 1860, and is a two-story, vernacular frame meeting house. It rests on tall granite piers, is sheathed in weatherboard, and has a hipped roof. The front facade features a projecting two-stage bell tower. Also on the property is a contributing church cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Mount Lebanon Chapel and Cemetery, also known as Lebanon Chapel, is a historic Episcopal chapel and cemetery located on the grounds of Airlie Gardens in Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina. It was built about 1835, and is a one-story, three bay by three bay, gable-roofed, rectangular building in a vernacular Greco-Gothic. It measures 26 feet wide and 37 feet deep, and is sheathed in weatherboard. It was restored in 1974. The cemetery contains 138 burials dating from 1815 to 2016. It is the oldest known surviving church in New Hanover County.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Church of the Saviour and Cemetery is a historic Episcopal church and cemetery located at the junction of Church and Calhoun Streets in Jackson, Northampton County, North Carolina. It was built between 1896 and 1898, and is a Gothic Revival style granite and brownstone church. It follows a basic gable-front plan and features a projecting three-stage entrance tower and separate sacristy. Adjacent to the church is the cemetery established in 1853.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Garysburg United Methodist Church and Cemetery, also known as Chapel Grove Church, is a historic Methodist church and cemetery located on SR 1207 in Garysburg, Northampton County, North Carolina. It was built about 1853, and is a one-story, three-bay, temple-form Greek Revival style frame church. It features a projecting vestibule and a tall, graceful bell tower added in 1905. Adjacent to the church is the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Yopps Meeting House, also known as Yopps Primitive Baptist Church, is a historic Primitive Baptist church located at Sneads Ferry, Onslow County, North Carolina. The current building was built around 1890, however the Friends of Yopp&#39;s Meeting House organization claims there may have been a log precursor built as early as 1813. The meeting house is a one-story, rectangular, frame building with a steep, gable-front roof and Greek Revival style design elements. Also on the property are two contributing cemeteries, one for white and one for African-American parishioners. Some of the plots are surrounded by iron fencing.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s Chapel is a historic Episcopal chapel located near Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. The congregation was established in 1759 by Anglicans, and united with the Episcopal Church of North Carolina in 1819. The Gothic Revival style brick church building was constructed in 1858-59 and the adjacent cemetery contains graves dating to the 1700s.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>St. Matthews Episcopal Church and Churchyard is a historic Episcopal church located on St. Marys Road, Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. The first three bays of the Gothic Revival-style brick church were built between 1825 and 1826, and its rear was extended by another bay in 1868. It features a square entrance tower built in 1830, which was rebuilt in 1850. The tower has a pyramidal spire and lancet windows. The brickwork was laid in Flemish bond.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It is located in the Hillsborough Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Church of the Holy Trinity is a historic Episcopal church located at 207 S. Church Street in Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina. It was built between 1848 and 1851, and is a small, frame Gothic Revival style church. It has a deeply pitched gable roof, pointed arch door and window openings, and is sheathed in plain weatherboard. The front porch and corner bell tower were added in 1894. Also on the property is a contributing church cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. It is located in the Hertford Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Roxboro Male Academy and Methodist Parsonage is a historic school and church parsonage located at 315 N. Main Street in Roxboro, Person County, North Carolina. The original main block was built between 1840 and 1854, as a two-story, single-pile, frame building with Greek Revival style design elements. A two-story addition with Italianate style design elements was added in the late-19th century. The house took on some Colonial Revival style design elements with the addition of a front porch and interior changes in that style. It is one of the oldest buildings still standing in the town of Roxboro and served as a Methodist parsonage from 1854 to 1915.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Red Banks Primitive Baptist Church is a historic Primitive Baptist church located between Meeting House Branch and E. Firetower Road in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina. The original church building was set on fire on December 30, 1863, by Union forces under the command of Col. Joseph M. McChesney. It was rebuilt in 1893 and is a one-story, frame, gable front, rectangular, building measuring approximately 50 feet by 30 feet. It is two bays wide and five bays deep and sits on a brick pier foundation. Located on the property is the contributing church cemetery with less than 20 markers.</p><br>
<p>The Red Banks Primitive Baptist Church was deeded to the Pitt County Historical Society in May 2000.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>St. Johns Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located on the southeast corner of SR 1917 and SR 1753 in St. Johns, Pitt County, North Carolina. It was built between 1893 and 1895, and is a one-story, gable front frame building. It has a projecting vestibule, is sheathed in weatherboard, rests on a brick pier foundation, and has a steeply pitched gable roof. The interior features a barrel vault ceiling.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Church of the Transfiguration is a historic Episcopal church located at Henderson and Charles Streets in Saluda, Polk County, North Carolina. It was built in 1889, and is a one-story Carpenter Gothic-style church with a steeply pitched gable roof and board and batten siding. It features a two-tiered square corner bell tower and pointed arch stained glass windows. A vestry addition was built in 1968.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Ashpole Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located near Rowland, Robeson County, North Carolina. It was built in 1860 and is a two-level, three bay by five bay, Greek Revival style frame church. It features an octagonal belfry with a concave cap roof that rests on a tall, square base. At the rear of the church is a modern educational building. Also on the property are the contributing -story manse, a square hip-roofed well house, and two-story barn.</p><br>
<p>Ashpole Presbyterian Church was established in 1796, the merging of Ashpole Meeting House and Shoe Heel Church. The Ashpole community from which the church took its name dated from 1750, and was settled by English, Welsh, and Scottish settlers. Some early preachers delivered their services in Gaelic to benefit the non-English speakers in the congregation. The church was built on land owned by James Robert Adair; a marker in his memory sits in front of the church.</p><br>
<p>The original Ashpole Church building was a log structure, with hand-hewn pine timbers held together with pegs and handmade nails. The current structure was constructed in 1860, and includes a second-floor gallery used for worship services by slaves during the Civil War years. During the Civil War, both Union and Confederate forces used the church for religious services as well as a hospital.</p><br>
<p>Ashpole Presbyterian Church founded a Ladies Missionary Society in 1885, sending female members of the congregation to Oklahoma in the 1890s and Korea in 1909 to spread the gospel.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Robeson County Heritage Book Committee, Our Heritage: Robeson County, North Carolina, 1748-2002 (2002)</p><br>
<p>C. J. McCallum and Lucie M. McCallum, Historical Sketch of Ashpole Presbyterian Church, Rowland, North Carolina, 1796-1996 (1996)</p><br>
<p>Centenary Methodist Church, also known as Centenary Memorial United Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist church located at 2585 NC 130 E near Rowland, Robeson County, North Carolina. It was built in 1885, and enlarged and modified in the Classical Revival style in 1903. It is a one-story, gable front frame building with a rectangular steeple and vestibule. A gable-front portico with cornice returns, supported by two slender wood columns, was added to the church in 1982. Adjacent to the church is the contributing cemetery with approximately 160 marked graves.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Barker Building, a seven-story apartment building located at 306 South 15th Street in Downtown Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Built in 1929, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 2, 2008. The sons of prominent, early Omaha minister Joseph Barker named this building in honor of their father. Architectural firm Allan and Wallace, local masters, provided the design for this building. An example of the Neo-Gothic Revival style, the building was constructed by contractor Kiewit Construction with characteristics of the Traditional Modernism period. After 70 years and numerous owners, the Barker Building was boarded up in 1999. In 2012, an 8.8 million dollar remodeling project was begun to convert the structure into a 48-unit apartment building.</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church, previously known as Leaksville Baptist Church, is a historic Baptist church located at 538 Greenwood Street in Eden, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was built in 1886, and is a Gothic Revival style brick church. It has a hipped roof with intersecting gables and Stick Style decoration in the gable ends. It features lancet windows and a wooden Gothic belfry with pointed steeple centered on the roof. Two Colonial Revival style additions were made to the church in 1934 and 1937.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church was a historic Southern Baptist church located at 401 S. Scales Street in Reidsville, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was built in 1918, and was a Late Gothic Revival style brick church. It has a three bay wide front facade with crenellated towers of unequal height and a three-part tracery stained glass window. It was home to an African-American Baptist congregation until the mid-1970s.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It has since been demolished.</p><br>
<p>Mt. Sinai Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church located at 512 Henry Street in Eden, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was built in 1921, and is a two-story, Late Gothic Revival style brick church. It sits on a raised basement and it has tall gable front flanked by square two-stage crenellated bell towers incorporated at each corner. It features pointed arch tower windows and brightly colored stained glass. It is the oldest African-American Baptist Church in Eden.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>St. Lukes Episcopal Church, also known as The Rock Church, is a historic Episcopal church located at 604 Morgan Road in Eden, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It was built in 1926, and is a one-story Mission Gothic style solid masonry church. It has a gabled roof that is intersected by gabled transepts and a pointed arch tracery stained glass window. A stained-glass window at St. Lukes was given by Lily Morehead Mebane in memory of her mother, Mary Lily Connally Morehead. It features a three-stage crenellated corner tower.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Wentworth Methodist Episcopal Church, South and Cemetery, also known as Wentworth United Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist church located at Wentworth, Rockingham County, North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>The Wentworth Church was organized on October 1, 1836. The first church building was located on Main Street just west of the Rockingham County Courthouse. The present 1859 sanctuary, built on the western outskirts of the original historic village area, is the last surviving pre-Civil War Methodist edifice in Rockingham County. The sanctuary (an antebellum meetinghouse once common in American Methodism) has been restored and contains one of the two remaining slave galleries in a Rockingham County church (The second slave gallery is in the nearby Wentworth Presbyterian Church which was organized in 1859 and constructed its present sanctuary in 1860).</p><br>
<p>In the church cemetery lie buried many prominent local residents, Confederate dead, and former slaves. Also buried there is the Rev. Dr. Numa F. Reid (1825–1873) one of the noted leaders of Southern Methodism in antebellum and postwar North Carolina. Reid&#39;s son, James Wesley Reid (1849–1902), a USA Congressman from 1884 to 1886, was an active member of this congregation. State senator John W. Stephens was a parishioner of the church. Robert Martin, Jr. the father-in-law of USA Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois was an early trustee of this church.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 and a restoration of the antebellum sanctuary was begun in 1981.</p><br>
<p>The church is located at 1308 NC 65 (Main Street) in Wentworth and on the western end of the original village area. The congregation, though small, is active with weekly Sunday worship services. It is part of the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church.</p><br>
<p>Back Creek Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery in Mount Ulla, Rowan County, North Carolina currently affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America . It was named for a nearby stream, which was back of Sills Creek and called Back Creek.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the late 18th century disagreements about the worship style at Thyatira Presbyterian Church culminated in the splitting of its congregation. Thirty families, including five of Thyatira&#39;s elders—Thomas King, John Barr, William Bell, Abraham Lowrance, and Thomas Gillespie, Jr. (son of Thomas Gillespie, Sr.)—left the church. The only elder still loyal to Thyatira was Capt. Thomas Cowan (1747-1817). They worshipped without a pastor from September 1805 until April 1807. The official date of establishment of Back Creek was September 5, 1805.</p><br>
<p>In 1807 the first pastor, Rev. Joseph D. Kilpatrick of Poplar Tent Presbytery, accepted the call to lead the new congregation. Four years later, in 1811, land was deeded by one of the ruling elders, John Barr, to "Back Creek Meeting House" and the congregation built a little log house of worship on the land. This was replaced by the congregation&#39;s present Greek Revival sanctuary built in 1857. In 1869 the congregation lost their African-American members, nearly half of the congregation. The entire region suffered economic depression. Many members left to the West. In 1952 a religious educational building was added. The current manse was built in 1968. Over the years Back Creek Presbyterian belonged to five different Presbyterian denomination. In 1991 the congregation joined the Presbyterian Church of America. And in 1993 the classrooms and kitchen were expanded.</p><br>
<p>In 1824 some members of Back Creek Church congregation organized Prospect Presbyterian Church in southwestern corner of Rowan County.</p><br>
<p>The Rev. S. C. Alexander (1830–1907) delivered the dedication of the third church building in an address at Thyatira on March 21, 1857. At that time, he was pastor of both Back Creek and Thyatira.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Back Creek adheres to the Westminster Confession of Faith, Westminster Larger Catechism and Westminster Shorter Catechism.</p><br>
<p>Grace Church  is one of the oldest churches in North Carolina, having been organized about 1745 as a Reformed congregation. The current church building dates from 1795. The congregation is currently affiliated with the Evangelical Association and is served by interim pastor, Rev. Kevin Sloop.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Grace Church began with the influx of German settlers into Piedmont North Carolina mostly from Pennsylvania during the 1740s and 50s. Many of the Germans were of the Lutheran persuasion, but the settlers</p><br>
<p>who began Grace Church were of the Reformed tradition and were called the Calvin or "Presbyterian Congregation on</p><br>
<p>Second Creek in the Dutch Settlement." An earlier wooden structure commonly known as the "Hickory Church" (circa mid-1750s) was shared with Organ Zion Lutheran Church on the plantation of Jacob Fulenwiler, the current site of St. Peters Lutheran Church. When Fulenwiler died in 1771, both churches moved to Grace Churchs current location, with Organ Church moving to its own site in 1774. Construction on the present Grace Church building began sometime after Organ Church started work on their building in 1792 and was completed in 1795.</p><br>
<p>The earliest documented evidence of the location of a "Meeting House" on Graces present property is a deed on record in the Rowan County Court House dated February, 1774, by which Lorentz Lingel conveyed sixteen acres of a larger land grant (dated 1761) from the Earl of Granville to Andrew Holtshouser (Holshouser) and John Lippard "for the use of the Calvin congregation adjacent or belonging to the Meeting House on the following land..." The land described is that on which the present Grace Lower Stone Church is located, and the deed indicates beyond question that a log "meeting house" had been built on this land prior to February, 1774. The church is built of local granite with a 12-foot gable roof. The dimensions of the church are 51 feet long and 40 feet 9 inches wide. The walls are 27 feet high and massive in width, measuring 32 inches thick at ground level, 27 inches thick at floor level, and 21 inches thick at gallery level. Grace Lower Stone Reformed Church and Organ Lutheran Church, which had their origins together, are nearly the same size and are built of the same type of rock and on the same general architectural plan. "The floor of the church originally was on the ground level and was laid of smooth stones, which remained in place until 1871, when the present floor was installed. The original seats were wooden benches without backs. The pulpit was of the wine glass design, mounted on a pedestal, with steps leading to it, and with an overhead sounding board. It was used until 1876, when during the pastorate of the Rev. R. F. Crooks, a new pulpit and altar pieces were made by members of the congregation. There were galleries on three sides, which provided additional seating space, until 1937, when alterations were made to provide classrooms for the Sunday School." The partitions have since been removed, and the galleries look as they might have in an earlier time. Over the north, south, and west doorways are stone tablets with inscriptions written in German. On the south wall is a smaller inset tablet with a clock face and a German inscription reading: "In the year of Christ, 1795: with Gods help" indicating the date the walls were finished. In a church document written in 1798, we find the following statement regarding the name of the church. "This house shall be called Gnaden Kirch (Grace Church) because the eternal life and the means of grace for the same, are gifts from God, through our Lord Jesus Christ."</p><br>
<p>Although the church was early completed (exact date unknown), it was not dedicated until November, 1811, during the pastorate of the Rev. George Boger. The Rev. Andrew Loretz preached the sermon, and the Rev. Dr. John Robinson, pastor of Poplar Trent Presbyterian Church, was present and took part in the service. The church is of Georgian colonial architecture typical of similar stone structures in Pennsylvania. The somewhat plain, whitewashed interior is indicative of the Reformed tradition. In 1901, a bell tower was added to the roof of the church. Grace Church is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The church is in a pastoral setting surrounded by many graves in the old churchyard. In the graveyard are buried some of the earliest families in Rowan County with stones bearing the names Barringer, Beaver, Berger, Boger, Bost, Brown, Casper, Corl, Fisher, Foil, Holshouser, Isenhower, Klutts, Kluttz, Klutz, Lingle, Lippard, Lyerly, Miller, Misenheimer, Moose, Peeler, Rinehart, Roseman, Shuping, Trexler, Troutman, Weaver, and Yost may be found throughout the cemetery. Many descendants of these early settlers continue as members of the congregation. Grace Lower Stone Church has been the mother church for the formation of other Reformed churches in the area. Throughout its long history, many of members who grew up in the church have gone into the service of the larger Church and community. Grace Church became a full member of the United Church of Christ, formed in 1957 by the merger of the Evangelical and Reformed Church with the Congregational Christian Church. However, in 2005, due to a conflict over doctrine, Grace pulled out of the United Church of Christ, moving closer to the earlier Reformed tradition.</p><br>
<p>Mount Zion Baptist Church is a historic African-American Baptist church located at 413 N. Church Street in Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina. The sanctuary was built in 1907, and is a red brick Gothic Revival style building. It features stained glass lancet windows and small triangular shaped windows and former towers capped by octagonal conical roofs. A brick-veneered educational/manse wing added between 1913 and 1920.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>St. Andrew&#39;s Episcopal Church and Cemetery is a historic Episcopal church and cemetery located near Woodleaf, Rowan County, North Carolina, United States. It was built in 1840, and is a one-story. frame meetinghouse style building. It is sheathed in weatherboard and rests on a stone foundation. Adjacent to the church is the contributing cemetery with 53 inscribed markers. It is the oldest intact frame antebellum Episcopal church in North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Third Creek Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery located near Cleveland, Rowan County, North Carolina. The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was founded in 1751 and the first meeting house was located in the center of what is now the cemetery. The current church building was constructed in 1835. It is a two-story, brick building. Also on the property is the Session House, a one-story gabled roof weather-boarded log building also dating from 1835.</p><br>
<h2>Gravesites</h2><br>
<p>The earliest surviving gravestones in the cemetery date from 1776. One notable burial is James Graham Ramsay (1823–1903).</p><br>
<p>The most famous and unique gravesite is of a thin tombstone enclosed in a brick box with glass for viewing that is believed to be of French military commander Marshal Michel Ney who served in Napoleon Bonapartes army during the Napoleonic Wars. Local folklore claims that Ney was living under the false name of "Peter Stuart Ney" as the towns schoolteacher. The plaque reads, "In Memory of Peter Stewart Ney a native of France and soldier of the French Revolution under Napoleon Bonaparte who departed this life November 15th, 1846 aged 77 years."</p><br>
<p>Thyatira Presbyterian Church, Cemetery, and Manse is a historic church at 220 White Road off NC 150 in Mill Bridge in Rowan County, North Carolina, ten miles west of the town of Salisbury. Presbyterians have been worshipping at this site since at least 1750.</p><br>
<p>The current Gothic Revival church building was constructed between 1858 and 1860 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The church was originally organized by 1750 as Lower Meeting House on its current site on Catheys Creek. The name was changed to Catheys Meeting House around 1755. The adjacent cemetery features gravestones dating back to the mid-1750s. The church is still in active use, and the congregation is currently affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA).</p><br>
<h2>Name origin</h2><br>
<p>Thyatira Presbyterian Church had two other names before the final name was appointed. On January 17, 1753 John and Naomi Lynn deeded twelve acres of land to the congregation of Lower Meeting House belonging to the old synod of Philadelphia. On January 18, 1753 twelve more acres on James Catheys north line was deeded to the same congregation. Lower Meeting House became later known as Catheys Meeting House.</p><br>
<p>In 1764 Elihu Spencer and Alexander McWhorter, two visiting Presbyterian ministers, carefully selected the name "Thyatira". Mentioned in the Bible in Acts 16:14 and Revelation 1:11 and 2:18-29, Thyatira was one of the seven churches of Asia. This early church had a record of faith, love, and endurance until an evil temptress, Jezebel, led many of the townspeople into disbelief and immorality, and some of the congregation followed their example. By choosing the name Thyatira, the two ministers demonstrated their knowledge of the Scriptures and left a reminder to the congregation. Church members were called to keep their faith in God and to prevent the prevailing materialism of the frontier society from leading them into immorality or infidelity.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The deed for the land on which the church and cemetery are located was made on January 17, 1753. At this time, the land was in Anson County, North Carolina in an area that became Rowan County on March 27, 1753. A copy of the deed is on display in the current church building and reads as follow:</p><br>
<p>The deed indicates that there was a congregation prior to the date of the deed. The name was changed by December 1755 to "Cathey&#39;s Meeting House". Prior to the American Revolution, the word "church" was reserved for use by the Anglican (Episcopal) Church.</p><br>
<p>The name of the licensed minister mentioned in the deed is not known. The church evidently was served by itinerant ministers until August 2, 1777 when the Rev. Samuel Eusebius McCorkle was ordained and installed as pastor. Rev. McCorkle was known for his Zion-Parnassus classical school, which was located about a mile from the Church.</p><br>
<p>During the later part of Rev. McCorkle&#39;s pastorate, a split of the congregation between revivalists and non-revivalists occurred in 1805. A revival was sweeping through the area with people shouting, dancing, barking like dogs, swooning and having the "jerks". The congregation was divided on whether this was a true manifestation of the Holy Spirit. Dr. McCorkle believed it was not. Feelings were so strong that 20 or 30 church families, including five elders, left Thyatira to form Back Creek Presbyterian Church on September 6, 1805.</p><br>
<p>There have been four house of worship buildings at Thyatira. The first building was a log building located above and west of the old part of the church cemetery. Nothing is known about the second building. The third church building was very large and had galleries on three sides. One gallery was reserved for use by slaves. The high pulpit was reached by winding stairs and an ornamental sounding board suspended above the minister&#39;s head. The church building that stands in the 21st century is a brick structure and was completed in 1860 and renovated in 1864.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>The 5 oldest known graves in the cemetery at Thyatira include:</p><br>
<p>John Nisbet, died on November 19, 1755, aged 50</p><br>
<p>John Brandon, died on May 15, 1756, aged 65</p><br>
<p>William Brandon, died in 1756, aged 30</p><br>
<p>James Graham, died on February 1, 1758, aged 88</p><br>
<p>John Knox, died on 25 October 1758, aged 50</p><br>
<p>Graves of notable persons buried at Thyatira include:</p><br>
<p>John Knox and Jean Gracy Knox who died 1758 and 1772. The memorial stone says that seven of their sons were soldiers in the American Revolution, and that they were great grandparents of James Knox Polk, President of the United States</p><br>
<p>Thomas and Naomi Gillespie: Thomas was a commissary in the Salisbury District Brigade and a large land owner in North Carolina and Tennessee. Both Thomas and Naomi died on December 13, 1796, Thomas aged 78 and Naomi aged 69. They were great grandparents of President James K. Polk. They were the first settlers in Rowan County on the west side of the Yadkin River, and lived in the strictest bond of matrimonial friendship for a space of 51 years. Their descendants amount to 63, of who six sons carried them to their place of interment, where they were deposited in the same coffin</p><br>
<p>Captain William Armstrong: He was mortally wounded in the Battle of Ramseur&#39;s Mill during the American Revolution and died the same day, June 21, 1780 at age 41.</p><br>
<p>Captain Thomas Cowan: He was in the Battle of Kings Mountain, Battle of Cowpens, and Battle of Ramseurs Mill. He died on December 4, 1817.</p><br>
<p>Honorable General Matthew Locke: He was a member of the North Carolina Provincial Congress on three separate occasions and member of the United States Congress (17931799). He died September 7, 1801, at age 71.</p><br>
<p>Senator Francis Locke, Jr., Revolutionary War Patriot (1766-1823)</p><br>
<p>Colonel James Brandon, Revolutionary War Patriot (1734-1790)</p><br>
<p>Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, preacher (1746-1811)</p><br>
<p>The cemetery also contains four tombstones said to mark the graves of pirates. According to tradition, four pirates from the coast of North Carolina made their way inland and settled in Rowan County and became farmers. They were later identified, convicted and executed. Their burial in the Thyatira cemetery was permitted only if the skull and crossbones, or just the crossbones were used on their gravestones.</p><br>
<p>Zion Lutheran Church, also known as Organ Church, is a historic Lutheran church located near Rockwell, Rowan County, North Carolina. It was built in 1794, and is a two-story, stone building. A large bell tower was added about 1900; it is topped by a heavy octagonal spire with a weathervane. A Sunday School addition was built on the rear of the church in 1929.</p><br>
<p>An earlier wooden structure commonly known as the "Hickory Church" (circa mid-1750s) was shared with Grace Church on the plantation of Jacob Fulenwiler, the current site of St. Peters Lutheran Church. When Fulenwiler died in 1771, both churches moved to Grace Churchs current location, with Organ Church moving to its own site in 1774.</p><br>
<p>Organ Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Forest City Baptist Church, also known as First Baptist Church, is a historic Baptist church building located at 301 W. Main Street in Forest City, Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect James M. McMichael and built in 1915. It is a two-story, cruciform plan, Classical Revival style brick building. It consists of an octagonal core surmounted by an eight-sided, slate-covered, pyramidal roof from which rectangular pedimented-gable wings project on the four sides. Adjoining the church is the Alexander Memorial building, built in 1927.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Lutheran Church, previously known as St. John&#39;s Episcopal Church, is a historic church at 702 N. Main Street in Rutherfordton, Rutherford County, North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>The Greek Revival-style church building was constructed in 1846 for the parish of St. John&#39;s Episcopal Church and remained an Episcopal church until 1936, when it was purchased by the Lutheran Synod and became Trinity Lutheran Church. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The building suffered a damaging fire in 2011 and is currently closed.</p><br>
<p>Black River Presbyterian and Ivanhoe Baptist Churches are historic Presbyterian and Baptist churches located on SR 1102 east of SR 1100 in Ivanhoe, Sampson County, North Carolina. Associated with each church is a cemetery.</p><br>
<p>Among the founders of the Black River Presbyterian congregation were immigrants, from Isle of Arran, Patrick Murphy (1720-1785) and Elizabeth Kelso (1724-1798), who are buried in the Black River Presbyterian Church Cemetery. The original wooden markers for these graves, now in Sampson County History Museum, were replaced by marble stones. The current Black River Presbyterian Church structure was built in 1859, and is a one-story, temple form, Greek Revival style frame church with an impressive pillared portico. The Ivanhoe Baptist Church was built in 1893 or 1895, and is a vernacular Gothic Revival style frame church. The Presbyterian congregation was founded in 1740 by Scots from the Island of Arran and from mainland Scotland.</p><br>
<p>They were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
