Nazareth Church Stone Marker

In 1765 Narareth’s first meeting house was built on this site. Made of logs cut from surrounding forest, pulpit of clapboard, seats of crude wooden plank, without backs and dirt floor.

Marker can be reached from Nazareth Church Road.

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Nazareth Church

This Presbyterian Church, located about .4 miles SE, was organized soon after 1766 by Scotch-Irish who settled the area. From Revolutionary War days the congregation has been influential in religious, educational, and civic affairs of Spartanburg County. A number of ...

Nazareth Church

Lutheran. Begun about 1778 by German settlers. Formerly called "Old Dutch Meeting House." Present building, 1878.

Marker is at the intersection of Bethania Rural Hall Road and Tobaccoville Road, on the left when traveling north on Bethania Rural Hall Road.

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Nazareth on the Beaverdam Presbyterian Church / Townville Presby

Nazareth on the Beaverdam Presbyterian Church

This is the first known site of Townville Presbyterian Church, founded in this area in 1803 as Nazareth on the Beaverdam Presbyterian Church. The church held its services at members' homes until 1849, when the ...