Methodist. An active congregation by 1789. Present building, 1890-1900, is third on site.
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Methodist. Liberal arts, senior co-educational college. Chartered Oct., 1956; opened 1960.
First church, 1742, was 2 3/4 miles N.E. Second building is 200 feet E. Mother church of Kehukee Association begun 1765.
Originally Anglican, 1740; later Methodist. In 1828 first annual conference of Methodist Protestant Church met here. This is third building on site.
Episcopal. Established about 1732. This building, the third, was erected in 1854, in part with brick from an older church.
Site of the first annual conference of Methodist Episcopal Church, 1785, hosted in home of Green Hill, minister, one mi. S.
Saint Helena, est. in 1905 as an agricultural colony for Italians, was populated, 1923-1932, by immigrants from Russia & the Ukraine. In 1932, led by John Boruch, their priest, they built this house of worship in the traditional Byzantine style.
Congregation formed in 1865. Present church constructed 1880 on land donated by Geo. Peabody. Located 2 blocks east.
Anglican, built under act of 1751. Graves of Governors Arthur Dobbs and Benjamin Smith and U.S. Justice Alfred Moore. Ruins 2 mi. S.E.
Erected 1875-6. First house of worship built in North Carolina by the Jews. Congregation established in 1867.