On Bellemont-Alamance Road, on the left when traveling east.
On Colonial Trading Path
Travelers used nearby spring
Preaching point 1759
Originally called "Graves Church"
Church founded circa 1770
Burials from early period in
rock enclosed cemetery
Recorded burials from 1790
Called "the Chappel" . . . — — Map (db m222798) HM
On Union Ridge Road (County Route 1001) at Altamahaw Union Ridge Road, on the left when traveling north on Union Ridge Road.
Since before 1776 religious services have been held on this site. In 1815 several residents here bought property, organized a church and began holding regular services open to all. The new church soon joined with the Christian denomination of the . . . — — Map (db m89309) HM
On Glencoe Street, on the left when traveling north.
Church congregations were central to social as well as religious life in the village. Mill owners encouraged church membership among their workers and often aided congregations to promote social stability and community morality. The Baptist church, . . . — — Map (db m222747) HM
This site and "meeting house" was the area birthplace of a new country in pre-revolutionary meetings, a new county (Alamance), a new county seat (Graham), an early public library, a courthouse, a school to college presidents and a governor, and a . . . — — Map (db m64237) HM
Of log construction, used for worship and school, stood here. Deed for land recorded in 1834 states it adjoins old Mt. Hermon tract, which signifies a place of worship existed prior to this date. Feb. 27, 1834 annual Methodist Protestant Conference . . . — — Map (db m66554) HM
On North Main Street, on the right when traveling north.
Side A Providence was a gathering spot for pioneers in the Haw River basin. Many families and denominations during the eighteenth century used this cemetery. Many early settlers including members of the Turrentine, Sellars, Holt, Harden, . . . — — Map (db m28277) HM
A memorial to British troops who died in the Old Meeting House during Cornwallis encampment here on his retreat from Guilford Courthouse March 1781.
Erected by Troop 46 B.S.A. Henry Overman Leader Who Died Before Completing It. — — Map (db m30558) HM
Near West Greensboro Chapel Hill Road just north of Sylvan School Road.
Side 1:
Cane Creek Friends Meeting Since 1751
The first Cane Creek Meetinghouse stood about two miles east on land belonging to John Stanfield. The first of four meetinghouses on this site was built in 1764 on land given by William . . . — — Map (db m30682) HM
On Snow Camp Road, 0.2 miles south of Greensboro-Chapel Hill Road.
Settled by Quakers in 1749. Cornwallis camped in area after Battle of Guilford Courthouse and used home of Simon Dixon as headquarters. — — Map (db m223102) HM
On Main Street (U.S. 52) at Cemetery Street, on the right when traveling south on Main Street.
Free black served as a Baptist pastor at Rocky River Church until law in 1831 barred blacks from public preaching. Buried 500 yards west. — — Map (db m77358) HM
On State Highway 18 S, 1 mile south of Blue Ridge Parkway, on the right when traveling south.
This plaque is erected and dedicated in honor and appreciation of the forty-six years Dr. Luke has been a minister of the gospel, along with his devoted wife Mary at his side he gave so much and asked so little. In 1927 he was called to preach at . . . — — Map (db m237797) HM
On Linville Falls Highway (U.S. 221) west of Sloop Mill Dam Road, on the left when traveling west.
Nowhere is The Crossnore School's mission to provide hope and healing in a
homelike residential education setting for children from families in crisis more
lovingly portrayed than through Ben Long's rendering of Mark 10:14, “Suffer the . . . — — Map (db m229252) HM
On Craven Street near South Main Street, on the right when traveling east.
Anglican minister to N.C., 1753-71. Served parish of St. Thomas & as chaplain to Gov. Arthur Dobbs. Erected first glebe house on record in the colony. — — Map (db m65664) HM
On Front Street near King Street, on the right when traveling south.
This site marks the former location of the Bath African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. The AME Zion denomination, chartered in New York City in 1801, began in the 1790s when discrimination against African American Christians forced them to . . . — — Map (db m65673) HM
On Carteret Street (County Road 99 / 92) at South Main Street, on the left on Carteret Street.
Bath, originally the Indian town of
Pampticough, was settled by white men
about 1690 and incorporated in 1705.
It is the oldest town in North Carolina.
Its first commissioners were John Lawson,
Joel Martin, and Simon Alderson. Here was . . . — — Map (db m64799) HM
On North Carolina Route 33 west of Taylor Road, on the left when traveling west.
(side 1)
This cemetery is the burial ground for the Episcopal congregation of Trinity Church Chocowinity.
The Rev. Nathaniel Blount of Chocowinity, a missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, established Trinity . . . — — Map (db m226573) HM
On North Bonner Street at East Main Street, on the right when traveling north on North Bonner Street.
Washington's original "free" church, open to all denominations, was constructed on lot 50 of the town's plat, created by Col. James Bonner, the founder of Washington, circa 1776. Bonner and two other Revolutionary War soldiers are buried here. . . . — — Map (db m226315) HM
On North College Street (Business U.S. 701) at Mercer Mill - Brown Marsh Road, in the median on North College Street.
Organized prior to 1756. Present building constructed 1818—the third on site. First two buildings of logs. Was also used for secular education until 1848. Among early ministers: H. McAden, Jas. Hall, S. Stanford, C. Lindsay. — — Map (db m60483) HM
On Mercer Mill - Brown Marsh Road just south of Lisbon Road, on the right when traveling north.
Organized prior to 1756 by Scottish settlers. Present building constructed 1818. Third building on site. First two building of logs. Was also used for secular education until 1848. Some early ministers: H. McAden — Jas. Hall — S. . . . — — Map (db m60485) HM
On State Highway 87 at Lisbon Road, on the left when traveling north on State Highway 87.
Mount Horeb
Presbyterian Church
and Cemetery
circa 1845
have been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m215473) HM
On Main Street (Business U.S. 17) south of Mulberry Street, on the right when traveling north.
Established late 1700’s. Incorporated March6, 1899. The Shallotte River was navigated by commercial sailing vessels until the 1920’s when the roads were built. First church building erected on this site circa 1799. — — Map (db m28823) HM
On Rhett Street at Nash Street, on the right when traveling north on Rhett Street.
Between the Civil War and the construction of the Panama Canal in 1904, local residents and investors desperately sought to surpass Wilmington by building a rail link to the Appalachian coal fields. Smithville would become the first refueling stop . . . — — Map (db m6227) HM
On St. Philips Road east of River Road (North Carolina Highway 133).
Brunswick Town State Historic Site was established on land donated to the State of North Carolina in December, 1952, by James Laurence Sprunt and his four sons, James Laurence Sprunt, Jr., Kenneth Murchison Sprunt, Samuel Nash Sprunt, and Laurence . . . — — Map (db m5535) HM
On St. Philips Road at Plantation Road on St. Philips Road.
Ordained 1707; came to America 1708. Served in many churches in area as missionary of Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 1732–1755. — — Map (db m6483) HM
On River Road (State Highway 133) at Plantation Road, on the left when traveling south on River Road.
Anglican, built under act of 1751. Graves of Governors Arthur Dobbs and Benjamin Smith and U.S. Justice Alfred Moore. Ruins 2 mi. S.E. — — Map (db m6467) HM
Near South Market Street north of Eagle Street, on the right when traveling south.
Eagle Street traditionally has been the commercial, cultural, and professional center of the African-American community. The YMI Cultural Center, commissioned by George W. Vanderbilt in 1892 as the Young Men's Institute, was renovated in the 1980s. . . . — — Map (db m98367) HM
On Beaverdam Road (State Highway 2230) at Merrimon Avenue (U.S. 25), on the left when traveling east on Beaverdam Road.
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
1784-1816, often visited and preached at the
home of Daniel Killian which was one mile east. — — Map (db m31456) HM
On Aston Street near Church Street, on the left when traveling east.
Designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue
of
Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson, New York
Has been placed on the
National Register
Of Historic Places
By the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m32324) HM
On S. Market St. at Patton Ave. (U.S. 74) on S. Market St..
Est. 1892 as a center for social, moral, religious influence for blacks working at Biltmore. Businesses thrived in building 100 yards, S. — — Map (db m30151) HM
On Haywood Street, on the right when traveling south.
A Spanish "master of the arch," Raphael Guastavino brought a soaring elegance to American architecture, artfully using layers of thin clay tiles to build vaults, domes, and roofs in more than a thousand buildings.
In 1890, he joined the . . . — — Map (db m209933) HM
On Haywood Street, on the left when traveling south.
A Lyrical Legacy
Asheville's musical legacy is woven from the melodies of many cultures and genres, passed down through generations. Cherokee flutes and drums met Scots-Irish reels and ballads when European settlers arrived in the region. . . . — — Map (db m209935) HM
On Lookout Road, on the right when traveling east.
In the late 1800s, John Collins, a Congregational minister from Connecticut, and other Christian lay leaders came to this cove. Their desire was to "establish and maintain a municipality containing assembly grounds for the encouragement of Christian . . . — — Map (db m209897) HM
To the Waldensian Colony
from the Cottian Alps.
who settled here first
in 1893
numbering in all 427,
in recognition of their
Christian ideals, integrity, industry and good citizenship
this monument is erected,
by the Town of Valdese.
And . . . — — Map (db m20336) HM
First Marker:Centennial Seal
Official Seal of the 100th
Celebration of the founding
of Valdese
Future
From an agrarian beginning
through Industrial growth,
comes a bright horizon
Civic
Citizens Band together . . . — — Map (db m20396) HM
On Rodoret Street South at Janavel Avenue Southwest, on the right when traveling south on Rodoret Street South.
Liberty, Faith and Honor. The Waldenses, dating from at least the 12th century, were a persecuted people who survived plagues, exiles into barren lands and the edicts of rulers calling for their extinction. These faithful people wanted to read the . . . — — Map (db m210391) HM
On St Johns Church Road at Mt Olive Road, on the right when traveling north on St Johns Church Road.
side 1
Adolph Nussmann
1739-1794
Pioneer minister and founder of the Lutheran Church in North Carolina
side 2
Born in German; educated in the University of Gottingen; called through commissioners Christopher . . . — — Map (db m77377) HM
On Cabarrus Avenue W (State Highway 1002) east of Crowell Drive SW.
Presbyterian. Est. 1867 by Luke Dorland to educate Negro women, Scotia Seminary merged in 1930 with Barber Memorial Institute. Coed since 1954. — — Map (db m43383) HM
Near Rocky River Road (State Road 1139) at Lower Rocky River Road, on the right when traveling south.
Organized about 1751
Cabarrus County
formerly Mecklenburg
Alexander Craighead called as regular pastor April 1758, he instilled principles of civil and religious liberty in the people he served and in 1771-1775 they announced to the world . . . — — Map (db m237988) HM
On Rocky River Road (State Road 1139) at Lower Rocky River Road, on the left when traveling north on Rocky River Road.
Presbyterian. Founded in
early 1750s. Hugh McAden
preached here 1755. First
regular pastor, Alexander
Craighead, 1758. Present
church constructed 1860. — — Map (db m237991) HM
On Union Street South just north of Means Avenue Southeast, on the right when traveling south.
St. James was Concord's first Lutheran Church, established in 1843 by a number of Coldwater Lutehrans who wished to worship closer to their Concord homes. It was situated on Fayetteville Road (now Corban Avenue SE), oneo quarter mile east of St. . . . — — Map (db m175759) HM
On State Highway 73 at St Johns Church Road, on the right when traveling west on State Highway 73.
Lutheran. Began ca. 1745 as Dutch Buffalo Creek Church. Adolph Nussman was first regular pastor, 1773. Building erected 1845. 300 yards north. — — Map (db m77369) HM
On St Johns Church Road at Mt Olive Road (County Route 2416), on the right when traveling north on St Johns Church Road.
During the Civil War, about two hundred members of St. John’s Lutheran Church served in at least eight Confederate army units. The units included companies in the 8th, 20th, 33rd, 52nd, and 57th North Carolina Infantry regiments, as well as a . . . — — Map (db m77374) HM
Near Idlebrook Road, 0.1 miles east of Bethel Church Road when traveling east.
Bethel Church Arbor is an open, hand-hewn, timber-framed
structure which was built as a religious shelter for camp
meetings. Its exact construction date is not known, but church
records indicate that at least the earlier section of the arbor . . . — — Map (db m237892) HM
On Bethel Church Road (State Road 1145) at Idlebrook Road, on the right when traveling north on Bethel Church Road.
Earliest documented seat of Methodism in Cabarrus County. Originally used to house week-long camp meeting revivals traditionally held the second Sunday in August. A reported estimate of 2000 people attended in 1878. Families camped in cabins or . . . — — Map (db m237894) HM
On Wade Street at C Street, on the right when traveling west on Wade Street.
Congregation established 1900
Building erected between 1918-1921
Placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
January 9, 1986 — — Map (db m238046) HM
On College Avenue Southwest at Main Street Southwest, on the right when traveling east on College Avenue Southwest.
For women; chartered 1859 by Methodist Episcopal Church, South; merged with Greensboro College, 1933. Two bldgs. stand 100 ft. S.W. — — Map (db m77566) HM
On Harper Avenue Northwest at Main Street Northwest, on the right when traveling east on Harper Avenue Northwest.
(preface)
On March 24, 1865, Union Gen. George Stoneman led 6,000 cavalrymen from Tennessee into southwestern Virginia and western North Carolina to disrupt the Confederate supply line by destroying sections of the Virginia and Tennessee . . . — — Map (db m208798) HM
Near College Avenue Southwest at Main Street Southwest, on the left when traveling east.
St. James Episcopal Church Welcomes you to walk and pray our labyrinth What is a Labyrinth? The labyrinth is an ancient spiritual tool for meditative prayer. It has been used by humankind throughout the world in many cultural . . . — — Map (db m237879) HM
On State Highway 343 at Main Street (U.S. 17), on the right when traveling north on State Highway 343.
Methodist since 1792. Begun as Anglican c. 1733. Visited by bishops Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke. Building erected 1837; remodeled 1882. 2˝ mi. E. — — Map (db m56764) HM
Completed in 1915 this church was the spiritual and communal center of the island, and like the villagers themselves it weathered many storms. As you enter the building notice that it tilts slightly to the right. The hurricane of 1944 left it this . . . — — Map (db m177424) HM
On Academy Street (State Highway 62) just south of Broad Street (State Highway 57), on the left when traveling south.
Built as Christ Episcopal Church in 1890 in Gothic architectural style. Deconsecrated and purchased by Milton Woman's Club Charter Members September 18, 1974. Maintained and used by the Club, the building is also a site for many civic and social . . . — — Map (db m171791) HM
On U.S. 158 at Bethesda Church Road (County Road 1153), on the left when traveling west on U.S. 158.
Presbyterian. Began as "Hart's Chapel," about 1765. Mother of many churches. The present building erected 1944, stands 3/4 mile south. — — Map (db m216377) HM
On State Highway 119 at State Highway 57, on the right when traveling north on State Highway 119.
Presbyterian. Founded about middle of 18th century. Hugh McAden, its noted pastor, was buried in the churchyard, 1781. One mile S. — — Map (db m216379) HM
On West North Carolina 10 (State Highway 10) at Hickory Lincolnton Road (County Highway 1008), on the right when traveling east on West North Carolina 10.
Organized before 1797 by German settlers from Pennsylvania. Present building, erected 1950, stands 2½ miles south. — — Map (db m156711) HM
On Hickory Lincolnton Highway at Grace Church Road, on the left when traveling north on Hickory Lincolnton Highway.
Erected in 1847 as
Grace Union Church
Reformed and Lutheran
Organized 1797 - Separated 1940
Grace Evangelical ad Reformed
Congregation 1940-1969 — — Map (db m156712) HM
To your right stood a frame church built by First Presbyterian Church. The first service was Nov. 2, 1878, and was their house of worship until 1905, when it was purchased by Christ Lutheran Church. The Lutherans worshiped here until 1926. It was . . . — — Map (db m18567) HM
On 9th Avenue Northwest (County Road 1337) at 17th Street Drive Northwest, on the left when traveling west on 9th Avenue Northwest.
Early rural Methodist church,
built by volunteers. Named for
Rev. William Kelly Houk (1855-1950),
founder. National Register of
Historic Places. Restored by the
Hickory Landmarks Society. — — Map (db m240454) HM
On 8th Street Northeast at 7th Avenue Northeast, on the right when traveling south on 8th Street Northeast.
Since its founding by four Lutheran pastors
in 1891, Lenoir-Rhyne University has been a
co-educational, private liberal arts institution
based on Christian values. In addition to
academics and athletics, the university seeks
to liberate mind . . . — — Map (db m210393) HM
On 8th Street Northeast at 7th Avenue Northeast, on the right when traveling south on 8th Street Northeast.
Founded as the “college church” in 1893, St. Andrew's Lutheran Church was created to enhance the worship life at Lenoir-Rhyne University, and a partnership between the two institutions continues today. The current church building was erected in 1951 . . . — — Map (db m210395) HM
Near Greenway Avenue north of Windy Holly Lane when traveling north.
Built in 1834, two congregations shared the log-built Haas Church:
Reformed Presbyterian and Lutheran. These different faiths shared
a worship space because building materials were costly and families
couldn't afford time away from their farms. . . . — — Map (db m240703) HM
On Old Conover-Startown Road, 0.1 miles West 7th Street, on the right when traveling north.
This tablet is dedicated to the Glory of God and the commemorate the unbroken record of the preaching of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ on or near this site since 1757 A.D. This church, known as Old St. Paul's Church, first known as "Dutch . . . — — Map (db m156757) HM
On State Road 751 at O'Kelly Chapel Road, on the right when traveling south on State Road 751.
Named for Rev. James O'Kelly, this chapel was erected on land
acquired in 1803 by a congregation which he had organized in 1794. It
is recognized as the first congregation of the “Christian Churches.”
O'Kelly's Essay on Negro Slavery, . . . — — Map (db m232695) HM
On Siler City Snow Camp Road, 0.4 miles north of Edwards Road, on the right when traveling north.
The first Siler to settle in this area. He came from Germany to America in 1738 and moved here about 1760. He built a grist mill just east of the present bridge over Rocky River. He furnished supplies during the Revolutionary War and was declared a . . . — — Map (db m233317) HM
On U.S. 64 at County Highway 1544, on the right when traveling west on U.S. 64.
In 1838, the United States government deported more than 16,000 Cherokee Indian people from their homeland in Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia, and sent them to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Thousands of Cherokee perished during . . . — — Map (db m120337) HM
On West Church Street just west of North Broad Street (State Highway 32), on the right when traveling west.
1702 Builds first church in North Carolina Three Carolina governors buried herein. Joseph Hewes, signer of Declaration of Independence; Dr. Hugh Williamson, signer of U.S. Constitution; James Iredell, Washington's youngest Supreme . . . — — Map (db m224755) HM
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