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• Piney Grove Missionary Baptist Church commemorative plate

  Piney Grove Missionary Baptist Church commemorative plate. Piney Grove Missionary Baptist Church, white plate with embossed white flowers, gold rim edge, recessed church drawing in black and white in plate center. On back: The Piney Grove Missionary Baptist Church was established in 1898, The present church building was built in 1940. It's membership now reaches a total of 287 members. We are praying that our new church under construction at this time will be a greater Christian influence in our community and that God will give us a greater increase. Rt 8, Mount Airy North Carolina - organized on August 8, 1899
  

• Grace Moravian Church commemorative plate

  commemorative plate of pencil drawing of Grace Moravian Church pre-1955, before the Sunday School wing was added.
  

• Westfield Friends Meeting commemorative plate

  commemorative plate featuring Westfield Friends Church, Westfield, NC. with gold rimmed, embossed fruit around the edge. Westfield Friends Church, better known as "Old Westfield", is the oldest religious organization in Surry County, NC, dating back to 1760s when pioneer Quakers from New Garden crossed Quaker Gap of Saurtown Mountains to plant a community in the Valleys of Big Creek and Tom's Creek. Those early Quakers began holding meetings at Westfield by 1772,December 23, 1786 a monthly meeting was set up at Westfield, and the name was changed from Tom's Creek to "Westfield." The meeting grew rapidly and established several new meetings. In 1803, a quarterly meeting was established with Westfield as its center. Gradually the migration westward weakened the meetings and in 1832, Westfield Meeting was laid down. In 1868 Friends gathered again at Westfield and started a meeting for worship. The meeting was setup as a monthly meeting again in 1883, and has continued without interruption until present day. The first church was built in the 1780s but decayed before the Civil War , was rebuilt, about 1870 and continued in use until about 1883, when present building was erected. Later to be modernized to its present form in 1939. As of this date, 1951, there are 175 members.
  

• Central Methodist Church commemorative plate

  commemorative plate featuring Central Methodist Church. Plate, souvenir with gold rim, picture of Central Methodist Church, Mt. Airy, NC, in center, raised fruit and leaves forming 1" border. On the back: "Central Methodist Church had its true beginning as a Mission congregation in Lebanon Chapel built about 1825, having been founded by Frances Asbury when he preached in this area in the late 1700's. Around 1865 Lebanon Chapel membership erected and moved into a new church on South Main Street. In 1892, this congregation felt need of, nearer the center of town, a larger church. Thus the present Central Methodist Church- now bearing memorial windows to honor Rev. Miles Foy, Rev. James Needham, Rev. Z. Vance Price, Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Paddison, and Carrie and Willie Taylor- stands on the corner of Dixie and Franklin Streets, on land donated by Mr. J.H. Sparger. The 1894 cornerstone designates the year the group began worshipping in thes structure."
  

• Flat Rock Baptist Church commemorative plate

  Plate, commemorative church, Flat Rock Baptist Church, Mount Airy, NC, founded in 1899, white plate with embossed vines, black and white drawing of church in recessed center. On back: The Flat Rock Baptist Church was organized at Laurel Hill and moved into the old school house in 1899. An auditorium was built in 1905 which was torn down in 1945. The Church moved back into our present Church House in 1937 and educational space was built in 1947. An educational building was erected in 1955.
  

• Mount Airy Friends Meeting commemorative plate

  Plate, commemorative church, Mount Airy Friends Meeting, Mount Airy, NC, white plate with embossed leaves and fruit, gold rimmed, drawing of church recessed in center. On back: Mount Airy Friends Meeting has been in existence as an organization since 1898, being set up as an Independent Monthly Meeting from White Plains Meeting. The present granite structure of the Meeting House was remodeled. The present membership of the Meeting is approximately 325.
  

• Friendly Chapel Church commemorative plate

  Plate, commemorative church,Friendly Chapel Church, Pilot Mountain, NC 1965-1975, white plate with embossed flowers, colored drawing of church recessed in center. On back: Friendly Chapel Church was organized in November 1964 with 36 charter members. We occupied the present church building in October 1965. God has richly blessed Friendly Chapel with a steady growth and now has reached a membership of approximately 560. Brother Don Collins has served as full-time pastor since the latter part of 1965.
  

• Antioch Baptist Church commemorative plate

  Plate, commemorative church, Antioch Baptist Church, Mount Airy, NC organized 1858, white plate with embossed fruit and flowers, black and white drawing of church recessed in middle. On back: Antioch Baptist Church was founded in 1858. It was located three and one-half miles west of Mount Airy, NC on Lowgap Highway. The new church was built in 1959
  

• Rockford Street Methodist Church commemorative plate

  Plate, commemorative church, Rockford Street Methodist Church, white plate with gold rim edge, photo of church recessed in center surrounded by thin gold rim. On back: Rockford Street Methodist Church was organized in 1921 with 93 Charter members. Church School and Worship Services were conducted in a tabernacle ??? present church building was under construction. In 1924, the 4th quarter conference authorized the building of the church, and the cornerstone was laid on August 16, 1925. The first pastor was Rev. George W. Williams. The church was dedicated Sunday, September 23, 1929. The dedication sermon was preached by Mr. E.K. McLarty.