Record #:

22984

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

From the records there was a Primitive Baptist Church near Contentnea Creek as early as 1793. On Aug. 4, 1823, a group of people were dismissed from Meadows Primitive Baptist Church in Greene Co., NC to start a church in Pitt County. On Sept. 18, 1823 the church at Tyson’s Meeting House was constituted. Tyson’s Meeting House became a free church by the 1850s and several other denominations met there. In 1871, Richard Lawrence Tyson remodeled (or rebuilt) Tyson’s Meeting House into a new church. Tyson’s Church ended about 1985 and some of the original pews were saved by Connor Eagles and are now at the Village of Yesteryear.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Nov 18-Dec 1 1998, p14-15

Subject(s):

Churches--Pitt County; Primitive Baptist Church--Tyson