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Dickerson Chapel

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73:. In 1845, the courthouse was purchased by Rev. Elias Dodson, the first Baptist minister in Hillsborough. Dodson had the building relocated to its present site on the corner of Churton and Queen Streets and reopened it as the First Baptist Church of Hillsborough. It served as a Baptist church until 1862, when the property was purchased by three Quakers from Pennsylvania, who converted the building into a school for African-American children. In 1886 the chapel was given to trustees of the 234: 55: 20: 239: 300: 320: 330: 295: 276: 310: 325: 66: 195: 269: 335: 305: 340: 315: 262: 74: 43: 62: 35: 70: 31: 146: 38:
until 1844. It housed a Baptist congregation from 1845 until 1862, when it was purchased by a group of
65:. It served as the county's courthouse until 1844, when the court relocated to what is known as the 42:
to serve as a school for African-American children. Since 1886 it has housed a congregation of the
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This article about a church or other Christian place of worship in North Carolina is a
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Dickerson Chapel was built in 1790 as the third courthouse for
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Lloyd, Pauline O.; Lloyd, Allen Alexander (August 4, 1963).
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Hillsborough, North Carolina
Orange County
Quakers
African Methodist Episcopal Church

Orange County, North Carolina
Old Courthouse
Hillsborough
African Methodist Episcopal Church
"History of the churches of Hillsborough, N.C. : ca. 1766-1962"
"1800s Organizing and Steadfastness"
"Dickerson's Chapel AME Church orig.1790"
"Our History"
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Former Baptist church buildings in the United States
Former courthouses in the United States

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