Jersey Settlement Meeting House

United States national historic place

United States historic place


Jersey Settlement Meeting House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

35°43′55″N 80°18′42″W / 35.73194°N 80.31167°W / 35.73194; -80.31167
Area	6.5 acres (2.6 ha)
Built	1842
Architectural style	greek revival
MPS	Davidson County MRA
NRHP reference No.	84002032^[1]
Added to NRHP	July 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.^[2]

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.^[3]

The meeting house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ Captain Benjamin Merrell & The Regulators of Colonial North Carolina; [via "History of the Liberty Baptist Association, by Elder Henry Sheets, Edwards & Broughton of Raleigh, N.C, (1907)"]; TAMU; accessed Aug 2018
^ 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.