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1. SUBJECT:

Mill Creek Baptist Church.

2. LOCATION:

On Mill Creek near the Rockingham County line.

3. DATE:

1756.

4. OWNERS:

Baptist.

5. DESCRIPTION:
6. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

English settlers established a Baptist Church at Mill Creek (now Page County) in 1743, on Linville Creek, August 6, 2024 and Smith Creek churches organized.

Linville Creek was disturbed by the Indians in 1757 and members fled to Eastern Virginia for safely. Sometime elapsed before the church was re-organized.

The Primitive Baptist Church was located at Dayton near War Springs Pike. The early ministers were often maltreated and beaten for preaching their doctrine.

The old Dayton Church was torn down in 1780 and moved to New Erection Church (the present one). The Dayton Church site and cemetery were submerged by Silver Lake when the milldam was built in recent years.

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