Chestnut Grove Baptist Church (Sparta, N.C.) records

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        <titleproper>Chestnut Grove Baptist Church (Sparta, N.C.) records
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        <publisher>Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives</publisher>
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          <addressline>PO Box 7777</addressline>
          <addressline>Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27109</addressline>
          <addressline>336 758-5755</addressline>
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      <unitdate normal="1897/1964" type="inclusive">1897-1964</unitdate>
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      <head>Scope and Contents note</head>
      <p>Reel 1: Church Minute Book, volume 1, 1897-1956: Minutes of church conferences from September 15, 1897 - January 1956; Membership rolls: 1897, 1911, 1942; Treasurer's records. Church Minute Book, volume 2, 1956-1964: Minutes of church conferences from July 14, 1956 - May 1964; Chronological membership roll.</p>
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      <head>Conditions Governing Use note</head>
      <p>Permission of the church must be obtained to copy these records in their entirety.</p>
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      <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition note</head>
      <p>Received on loan for microfilming and return to the church. Received from Mrs. A.O. Joines, Sparta, N.C., July 1964.</p>
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      <p>The Chestnut Grove Baptist Church is located 5 miles east of Sparta, North Carolina in Alleghany County. the church was constituted on September 5, 1897. A member of the Ashe and Alleghany Baptist Association for a few months in 1897, the church was then received into the Alleghany Association in 1897. The first building, built in 1897, was a wood frame one-room structure, 30' by 40', with a seating capacity of 200. It was dedicated in 1897 and repaired in 1910. A brick structure was constructed in 1939. Chestnut Grove's first resident clergyman was the Reverend Mr. D.J. Roberts (1897). Church membership in 1897, 13; in 1907, 33; in 1927, 34; in 1938, 19; in 1963, 30.</p>
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      <p>Processed by Ashley Cyre on June 3, 2011.</p>
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