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The community of the Fourth Creek Congregation was a group of Scots-Irish Presbyterians who first arrived in the Province of North Carolina in the mid to late 1730s and established a congregation by 1750 under pastor John Thompson in Anson County which became Rowan County in 1753 and finally Iredell County in 1788.
First Missionary Baptist Church (New Bern, North Carolina) First Presbyterian Church (Charlotte, North Carolina) First Presbyterian Church (Fayetteville, North Carolina) First Presbyterian Church (Franklin, North Carolina) First Presbyterian Church (Goldsboro, North Carolina) First Presbyterian Church (Hickory, North Carolina)
Mt. Horeb Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery located near Elizabethtown, Bladen County, North Carolina. It was built in 1845, and is a frame Greek Revival-style church with a pedimented front portico added in 1932. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1]
In 1860, Dr. Richard Blacknall moved from Rougemont to Durham and convinced Rev. James Phillips and Rev. Charles Phillips of Chapel Hill to hold Presbyterian sermons in Trinity Methodist Church and First Baptist Church. [1] In 1871, the congregation formally organized during a meeting of the Orange Presbytery. [1]
In 1785, the "Protestant Presbyterian Church of Wilmington" was incorporated by the State Legislature. The church seems to have continued its semi-independent existence until April 4, 1817, when it was received into the Fayetteville Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church. Fire destroyed the first three buildings erected by this congregation.
There have been four church buildings built for the church, including the original log church, the third building built in 1899, and the fourth and present structure built in 1939. After the U.S. Civil War many of the black families in the area began worshipping at the nearby Logan Presbyterian Church. [3]
First Presbyterian Church was founded in 1824 [1] and was the first chartered Presbyterian church in the city. [2] [3] Four of its 12 original members were slaves.Thirty to 40 slaves were members by the time of the American Civil War, and after being freed, 37 former slaves started Saint James Presbyterian at Friendly Avenue and Church Street.