St. Paul's Church and Cemetery

Jct. of SR 1149 and SR 1164, Newton, North Carolina. County/parish: Catawba.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 09, 1971. NRIS 71000573.

1 contributing building. 1 contributing structure.

From Wikipedia:

St. Paul's Church and Cemetery (Newton, North Carolina)

St. Paul's Church and Cemetery also known as Old St. Paul's Lutheran Church or St. Paul's Lutheran Church is a church in Newton, North Carolina. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 as a Historic Place in Catawba County, North Carolina.

St. Paul's Church, Newton is a two-story log weatherboarded church built in 1818. It features a Federal style interior with carved sounding board and moldings and a separate, now repurposed, slave balcony. The building is one of the oldest existing churches in North Carolina west of the Catawba River. The graveyard headstones date to the late 18th century. The St. Paul's Reformed Church at Startown formed from this congregation in 1904.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719513