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  1. SUBJECT:

    2. Linville Creek Baptist Church.

  2. LOCATION:

    3. Linville Creek, near County line.

  3. DATE:

    4. 1743, approximately.

  4. OWNERS:

    5. The Baptist congregation has held possession of this property since the organization of the church in 1756.

  5. DESCRIPTION:

    6. It is impossible to give the architectural construction of these early buildings which have long since been rebuilt and several times remodeled; and the present brick building is modern in every way.

  6. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

    7. The early English settlers established a Baptist Church at Linville Creek (now Page County) in 1743, and in August 1756, the Linville and Smith Creek churches were organized in Rockingham County.

  7. ART:
  8. SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Court Records of Rockingham County, at Harrisonburg, VA.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 4, 1937 W.A. Byerly

Bridgewater, VA