{"nrhp_refnum":"87000695","name":"Mt. Horeb Presbyterian Church and Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SW corner of NC 87 and SR 1712 Jct.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Elizabethtown","county":"Bladen County","state":"NC","lat":34.51637976200004,"lon":-78.45033944599999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-05-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A weatherboarded frame Presbyterian church and its adjoining cemetery on the southwest side of NC 87 at SR 1712, near Elizabethtown in rural Bladen County, North Carolina. The church was built in 1845 by George Cromartie.","why_significant":"It is the second oldest surviving Presbyterian church in Bladen County, after Brown Marsh Church, and the only building ever erected by its congregation. It is a modest Greek Revival frame church, one of a group built by Highland Scot descendants in the upper Cape Fear Valley in the mid-1800s. It is also tied to the spread of Presbyterianism in the region, and its cemetery served as a community burying ground.","narrative":"Mt. Horeb Presbyterian Church is a simple white frame sanctuary with a neighboring cemetery, set on a gentle rise beside NC 87 in rural Bladen County. Builder George Cromartie was hired in the summer of 1845 to erect it for a congregation organized through the missionary work of the Rev. H. A. Munroe, and the first service was held on December 6, 1845. The cost was only $400. Its modest Greek Revival finish remained unaltered until 1932, when a porch was added; a Sunday School wing and columns followed in the early 1950s. It is the second oldest surviving Presbyterian church in the county and one of a group of frame Greek Revival churches built by Highland Scot descendants in the upper Cape Fear Valley. The cemetery holds about 425 stones, including that of John Henry Wehmann, a German who died in 1849 and was the first person buried there. It also served as a community burying ground.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900- (specific date 1845)","architect_builder":"George Cromartie (builder); Leslie Boney of Wilmington designed the 1952 Sunday School addition, built by Howard Johnson, Glenn Parker, and Kadell Peterson","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as a church; the congregation had 37 members in 1984, and the building's condition is listed as good and altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:48.954767-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/89/7190/47719089/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/87000695.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000695/5a51520cb8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000695/5a51520cb8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rcpate1308","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mt_Horeb_Presbyterian_Church,_NC87,_National_Historic_Property,_photo_5.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Rcpate1308</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mt_Horeb_Presbyterian_Church,_NC87,_National_Historic_Property,_photo_5.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719089","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Horeb_Presbyterian_Church_and_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14708065"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/bladen-county/mt-horeb-presbyterian-church-and-cemetery-87000695/"}