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Jersey Settlement Meeting House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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LocationN side SR 1272 0.2 mi. E of jct. with SR 1104, near Linwood, North Carolina
Coordinates35°43′55″N 80°18′42″W / 35.73194°N 80.31167°W / 35.73194; -80.31167
Area6.5 acres (2.6 ha)
Built1842
Architectural stylegreek revival
MPSDavidson County MRA
NRHP reference No.84002032
Added to NRHPJuly 10, 1984

Jersey Settlement Meeting House, also known as Jersey Baptist Church, is a historic church and meeting house located near Linwood, Davidson County, North Carolina. The Baptist congregation was founded around 1755 by settlers from New Jersey. Among them was Benjamin Merrill, a local leader in the Regulator movement from 1765 to 1771, who was captured and executed following the Battle of Alamance.

The current Greek Revival church meeting house was built in 1842 near the Jersey Baptist Church Cemetery. It is a rectangular gable-front brick building, four bays long and two bays wide. A belfry was added in 1897-1899 and a portico in 1945.

The meeting house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Captain Benjamin Merrell & The Regulators of Colonial North Carolina Archived 2017-02-06 at the Wayback Machine; ; TAMU; accessed Aug 2018
  3. Ruth Little (February 1983). "Jersey Settlement Meeting House" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.

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U.S. National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
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