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Colonial Anglican congregation known as Skinners Chapel. Present church constructed 1850-1853. Now United Methodist.

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.

Episcopal. Was originally Blount’s Chapel. Built nearby ca. 1774 by Rev. Nathaniel Blount, who served until his death, 1816. Moved here, 1939.

Primitive Baptist. Begun in 1776. First Pastor was John Page. Second building on site. Two miles S.

Agent of the American Colonization Society in Liberia, founded the A.M.E. Zion churches in Albemarle area. His first church, 1865, near here.

Baptist congregation formed about 1780. Primitive Baptist since 1830's. Church here was built in 1853.

Episcopal. Oldest church building in the state of North Carolina; was constructed in 1734.

African American pastor. He founded in 1911 St. John, the first Church of God in Christ ministry in N.C. Grave 100 ft. W.

Oldest Baptist church in N.C. Organized by Sept. 5, 1729, by Paul Palmer. The present chapel was erected here in 1849.

A Quaker Meeting was established by 1680. The site of Yearly Meeting, 1698-1785. Discontinued in 1797. Was 1 mi. S.E.