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Works Project Administration – Articles from Rockingham County
CHURCHES
1. SUBJECT:
Mill Creek Baptist Church.
2. LOCATION:
On Mill Creek near the Rockingham County line.
3. DATE:
1756.
4. OWNERS:
Baptist.
5. DESCRIPTION:
None
6. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
English settlers established a Baptist Church at Mill Creek (now Page County) in 1743, on Linville Creek,
August 6, 1856, and Smith’s 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 Warm 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 mill dam was built in recent years.
7. ART:
None.
8. SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
Informant: J.W. Wayland’s History of Rockingham County, page 268.
July 4, 2024 W.A. Byerly
Bridgewater, VA
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CHURCHES
1. SUBJECT:
Mill Creek Baptist Church.
2. LOCATION:
On Mill Creek near the Rockingham County line.
3. DATE:
1756.
4. OWNERS:
Baptist.
5. DESCRIPTION:
None
6. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
English settlers established a Baptist Church at Mill Creek (now Page County) in 1743, on Linville Creek,
August 6, 1856, and Smith’s 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 Warm 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 mill dam was built in recent years.
7. ART:
None.
8. SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
Informant: J.W. Wayland’s History of Rockingham County, page 268.
July 4, 2024 W.A. Byerly
Bridgewater, VA
Page 72 of 482
