Jersey Settlement Meeting House | |
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| Location | N side SR 1272 0.2 mi. E of jct. with SR 1104, near Linwood, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°43′55″N 80°18′42″W / 35.73194°N 80.31167°W |
| Area | 6.5 acres (2.6 ha) |
| Built | 1842 |
| Architectural style | greek revival |
| MPS | Davidson County MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 84002032[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 10, 1984 |
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.[2]
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.[3]
The meeting house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Captain Benjamin Merrell & The Regulators of Colonial North Carolina Archived 2017-02-06 at the Wayback Machine; [via "History of the Liberty Baptist Association, by Elder Henry Sheets, Edwards & Broughton of Raleigh, N.C, (1907)"]; TAMU; accessed Aug 2018
- ^ Ruth Little (February 1983). "Jersey Settlement Meeting House" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.