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Submitted: 1/14/22 • Approved: 1/16/22 • Last Updated: 1/19/22 • R481745-G0-S3
Salem Predestinarian Baptist Church and Cemetery
Among oldest in county, founded December 3, 1853 by the Lee families, elders Thomas Dossey and C. T. Echols certifying to constitution of church. Elder Dossy named it. Five-acre site given by W. H. McSwane family. First building of logs was replaced later by frame structure. The present chapel was erected in 1961.
(marker dedicated 1967)
Contributed on 1/14/22 by radiovector178
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