Churches & Faith

Context

What it was and why it mattered

St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Hillsborough Site steward The parish that keeps the 1826 church and its churchyard

Visit Hillsborough: Dickerson's Chapel AME Church Town or county website A Black congregation's building, first raised in 1790 as the county's Methodist church

Historical marker G-90: St. Mary's Chapel NC Highway Historical Marker Established as Anglican chapel ca. 1759. Present building consecrated in 1859, stands 500 ft. N.

Historical marker G-84: Old Eno Church and Cemetery NC Highway Historical Marker Presbyterian. Served by Hugh McAden, 1755-65. Henry Pattillo was first pastor. Church moved to Cedar Grove in 1893. Cemetery one mile S.

National Register: Chapel of the Cross National Register nomination Nomination (2/1/1972), Chapel Hill: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: Saint Mary's Chapel National Register nomination Nomination (7/12/1978), Hillsborough vicinity: history, description, and sources for the property

National Register: Saint Matthew's Episcopal Church and Churchyard National Register nomination Nomination (6/24/1971), Hillsborough: history, description, and sources for the property

Marker: St. Mary's Chapel Historical Marker Database (HMdb.org)

Marker: St. Matthew's Churchyard Historical Marker Database (HMdb.org)

Marker: This Building Tells Many Stories Historical Marker Database (HMdb.org)

Ask locally

Organizations that keep the county’s own knowledge

Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room in Hillsborough: books, maps, microfilm, family files, and staff who know the county

In the index

Works across North Carolina libraries and archives whose catalog description names this theme. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it.

Forged in the Spirit

Haines, Nancy Learned · 2026 · Pleasant Green Books

Can a community rooted in peace survive in a world of unrest? The year is 1750. Seeking fertile soil and spiritual freedom, Quaker pioneers journey from Pennsylvania to the heart of North Carolina. Along the banks of th…

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Ridge Garden United Methodist charge cookbook

a collection of recipes by Clover Garden United Methodist & Chestnut Ridge Unite · 2025 · Clover Garden United Methodist Church

UNC

The first parish register of the Chapel of the Cross (1842-1881)

2024 · Chapel Hill Historical Society

"The First Parish Register of the Chapel of the Cross is a transcription of the parish register of the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for the years 1842 to 1881. It includes an Introduction and bibl…

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Binkley: A Congregational History

Gardner, Andrew · 2023 · The University of Tennessee Press

"This book examines how a Southern Baptist congregation emerged as a bastion of liberal Christianity in late twentieth-century Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Andrew B. Gardner narrates a detail-rich history, from the late…

UNC Duke Library of Congress Wake Forest

Anna Burwell and the business of being a Presbyterian minister's wife in North Carolina, 1835-1857

Sylvia D. Hoffert · 2019 · Historical Research Office, Office of Archives and History

UNC

The welcome table

a collection of recipes by Hillsborough United Church of Christ · 2019 · Hillsborough United Church of Christ

UNC

The story of Amity United Methodist Church : Chapel Hill, North Carolina

told by God's own at Amity ; compiled and edited by Sybil Austin Skakle, church · 2017 · Righter Books

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A legacy that endures: The story of my Biddix ancestors of Western North Carolina

Biddix, Randy · 2016 · Randy Biddix

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An Anniversary Tribute to Judea Reform Congregation

2011

Durham

The fruit of the spirit : a collection of recipes

by Mount Carmel Baptist Church, 2016 Mount Carmel Church Road, Chapel Hill, NC 2 · 2008 · Morris Press Cookbooks

UNC

Mars Hill Baptist Church cookbook

2008 · Mars Hill Baptist Church

UNC

Oral history interview with Charles M. Jones, November 8, 1976: interview B-0041, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Jones, Charles Miles · 2008 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Presbyterian minister Charles Jones recounts his civil rights activism in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, from the 1930s to the 1960s. He describes the town and the University of North Carolina's leaders as moderately libe…