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Author: chris Published Date: May 24, 2020 Leave a Comment on The Little River Baptist Church was built in 1845. The church started as Gibson’s Meeting House and was established in 1768. The original meeting house was the site of a Revolutionary War battle and the current building was damaged by Union troops during the Civil War
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Author: chris Published Date: May 22, 2020 Leave a Comment on The Matthew Patrick House was built in 1915. Matthew Patrick was the postmaster at the T. G. Patrick Store in White Oak
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Author: chris Published Date: May 17, 2020 Leave a Comment on The Catholic Presbyterian Church was organized in 1759 and this current structure was built in 1842. A granite marker at the church commemorates the sixty-two soldiers from the church who fought in the Revolutionary War. The church graveyard is one of the most well maintained and organized graveyards I have seen
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Author: chris Published Date: May 16, 2020 Leave a Comment on The Glenn Springs Post Office was built ca. 1900. In 1827, John B. Glenn purchased a 723-acre tract of land that contained waters orginally called Sulfur Spring. The Glenn Springs Company purchased the land from Glenn in 1837 and was granted a charter. The town thrived until the invention of the gasoline car and modern roads, at which time the town declined as a prestigious place to vacation
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Author: chris Published Date: May 15, 2020 Leave a Comment on The Atlantic Coast Railroad Depot was constructed in 1928. The rail line started as the Wilmington, Chadborn, and Conway Railroad with a second rail line, the Conway Coast and Western Railroad, was built in 1896. The two interconnected in 1904 was purchased by the Atlantic Coast Line in 1912




