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FAITH · HISTORICAL MARKER
Old Cool Springs Cemetery
Forest City, North Carolina
· 1840 - 1873
Historical Marker Database · Stanley and Terrie Howard
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Cool Springs Baptist Church, now First Baptist Church, was organized in the John Bostick Home in 1848. Its first log meeting house stood from 1855 to 1867. It was the first church and cemetery in the settlement.
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