Hannah's Creek Primitive Baptist Church

Hannah's Creek Primitive Baptist Church
Location NC 301 southwest of junction with NC 1171, Benson, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°24′36″N 78°30′20″W / 35.41000°N 78.50556°W / 35.41000; -78.50556Coordinates: 35°24′36″N 78°30′20″W / 35.41000°N 78.50556°W / 35.41000; -78.50556
Area 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built c. 1834 (1834)
NRHP Reference # 90002181[1]
Added to NRHP January 25, 1991

Hannah's Creek Primitive Baptist Church is a historic Primitive Baptist church located at Benson, Johnston County, North Carolina. It was built about 1834 or about 1866, and is a vernacular one-story rectangular, timber frame building, five bays wide and three bays deep. It rests on a brick pier foundation and has a gable roof. The building measures 36 feet wide and 48 feet long. The church was moved to its present location in the 1930s. Also on the property is a contributing church cemetery with burials dating from the late-19th century to 1940.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Linda Harris Edmisten (September 1990). "Hannah's Creek Primitive Baptist Church" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-01-01.


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