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- Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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The Five Forks meeting house north of Cedar Grove
The 1993 county survey recorded a small front-gable frame building at Five Forks, north of Cedar Grove, as Five Forks Church and estimated it at about 1920. It was most likely the old pack barn owned by Mr. Laws where Five Forks Baptist Church began meeting in 1952 and was organized in 1953, until its new church was dedicated in 1967.
Subject: Five Forks Baptist Church
- Civil rights era · 1945–1975
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Five Forks Baptist Church is organized in a converted pack barn
Prayer meetings begun in 1951 by Gattis Brown of Glen Hope Baptist Church in Burlington moved in 1952 to an old pack barn at the Five Forks crossroads, and the church was organized there on July 2, 1953 with 27 members. Brown was pastor until 1964.
Subject: Five Forks Baptist Church
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Five Forks Baptist Church dedicates its new block church
Needing room for a cemetery, the congregation moved to land bought from Arthur Wright for $1 and began building in 1966 with 2,400 donated blocks, much of the work done by the pastor, Tommy Willis, and members. The church was dedicated on December 10, 1967.
Subject: Five Forks Baptist Church
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