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"Boone County" church
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Forks of Gunpowder Baptist Church (Boone County, Ky.) Denomination: Baptist
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Bullittsburg Baptist Church (Bullittsburg, Ky.) Denomination: Baptist
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Point Pleasant Christian Church (Hebron, Ky.) Denomination: Independent
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Hopeful Lutheran Church Building (Florence, Ky.) Historic Status: National Register of Historic Places
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Belleview Baptist Church (Belleview, Ky.) Denomination: Baptist
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Salem Predestinarian Baptist Church Building (Walton, Ky.) Floor Plan: N/A
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Bullittsburg Baptist Church Building (Bullittsburg, Ky.) The church is located near the log home of George Gaines (BE 83), who originally donated the land on which the church stands.
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Sand Run Baptist Church (Francisville, Ky.) Denomination: Baptist
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Florence Christian Church Building (Florence, Ky.) Located on the corner of U.S. 25 and U.S. 42, the first Florence Christian Church building was constructed of logs in 1831. The church was rebuilt in 1835 and again in 1964. John Uri Lloyd recounted a battle fought around the Florence Christian and Florence Baptist churches during the Civil War.
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First Baptist Church of Walton Building (Walton, Ky.) The First Baptist Church of Walton was established in 1866. The first meeting was held at a school house near the intersection of Beaver Grade and Stephenson Mill Road. The church's first minister was Lafayette Johnson who served without pay from 1866 to 1870. In 1867, the trustees of the church set the wheels in motion to begin building a house of worship on Church Street (formerly Crusie Creek Rd.) In 1881, the land was purchased for the church cemetery on the east side of the building. A Sunday School was approved and began instruction in 1882. A new church building was needed as the church community grew. The cornerstone was laid for the building on South Main Street in downtown Walton in 1913, with dedication the following year. The church has gone through several expansions in subsequent years.
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Hebron Lutheran Church Building (Hebron, Ky.) "Hebron Lutheran was organized in 1854 by sixteen German immigrant families who were originally members of Hopeful Lutheran Church near Florence – one of the oldest Lutheran congregations west of the Alleghenies.
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Salem Predestinarian Baptist Church (Walton, Ky.) Denomination: Baptist
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Hopeful Lutheran Church (Florence, Ky.) Denomination: Lutheran
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First Universalist Church (Burlington, Ky.) Denomination: Universalist
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Bethel Baptist Church Building (Union, Ky.) Bethel Baptist Church was located on Frogtown Road near Union. The church was organized in July 1812. In 1818 Revolutionary War veteran Hugh Steers donated the land for a church building.
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Beaver Lick Baptist Church (Beaver Lick, Ky.) Denomination: Baptist
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Big Bone Baptist Church Cemetery (Boone County, Ky.) This is a church cemetery for the earliest church in the Big Bone region. It contains hundreds of internments, and is still in active use.
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Kirtley, Robert E. Robert Kirtley was born May 30, 1786 along the Rapidian River in Culpepper (now Madison) County, Virginia, the son of Jeremiah and Mary Kirtley. In 1796 he moved with his parents to Boone County, Kentucky, where he resided for the rest of his life.
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Big Bone Baptist Church Building (Boone County, Ky.) This was the earliest church in the Big Bone region. It was built in 1843 on land donated by General John Wallace and Thomas Huey. Until then most of the inhabitants of the area attended Middle Creek Baptist Church in Belleview. The first pastor was Robert Kirtley (1786-1872). The second pastor was his son James Kirtley (1822-1904).
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Richwood Presbyterian Church Building (Richwood, Ky.) The congregation of the church was founded in May 1834 by Reverend Joseph Cabell Harrison, first cousin to President William Henry Harrison. The church was the first Presbyterian congregation in the county. Its 1870 sanctuary, with a sympathetic addition, is still in active use today. The community that grew up around it took its name from the church.
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Richwood Presbyterian Church (Richwood, Ky.) Denomination: Presbyterian
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Beaver Lick Baptist Church Building (Beaver Lick, Ky.) "Beaver Lick Baptist Church was organized in September 1881 by the Baptist Church of Christ at New Bethel. It was formally constituted on November 3, 1883 with a congregation of twenty-five.
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First Baptist Church of Burlington (Burlington, Ky.) Denomination: Baptist
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Hopewell Baptist Church Building (Beaver Lick, Ky.) Mr. Robert Lett, a descendant of the Sleet Family, has provided the following information regarding the Hopewell Baptist Church located just south of Beaver Lick near US Highway 42.
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Bullittsburg Baptist Church Cemetery (Bullittsburg, Ky.) The church cemetery, bounded by a wrought-iron fence, was established in the 1860s.