MILITARY · HISTORICAL MARKER
The Site of Harriet's Chapel
Kinston, North Carolina
· Harriet's Chapel Battlefield Park
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Harriet’s Chapel was the site of some of the most intense fighting of the Battle of Kinston. The chapel vanished long ago, and no photograph or drawing survives, but Union and Confederate regimental histories generally agree that it was an unpainted wood-frame building supported by piers. A nearby surviving example, New Beaverdam Primitive Baptist Church, was built by its congregation shortly after the Civil War and was left unfinished “in the primitive way.” A pastor held services there once a month until the early 1950s, when the church closed. Under customary practice, the deed then passed to the church’s last living member, who sold the building, and after being moved from its original site it served as a tenant house and then a storage building. Michele Waller donated the building in 2009 to Historical Preservation Group’s Lenoir County Battlefields Commission, and in 2010 it was moved to a site near where Harriet’s Chapel is thought to have stood.
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