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Historical marker NC-40: Welsh Tract Church

NC-40:

One-fourth mile southwest is old Welsh Tract Primitive Baptist Meeting House. Congregation organized in Wales, 1701, settled here, 1703. A cannon ball passed through Meeting House during Battle of Cooch's Bridge, September 3, 1777.

Installed in 1932.

Sponsors:

Historic Markers Commission, 1932.


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Approximate Original Location:

2.5 miles south from Newark on west side of Newark to Middletown Road at the intersection of Baptist Church Road.


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