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Leiper’s Fork Church of Christ

Leiper’s Fork Church of Christ

According to an article published by Leo Boles in the Gospel Advocate 11 Dec. 1930, John Dobbins donated a plot of land for the construction of a religious meetinghouse in Leipers Fork (Hillsboro) in 1815, named Union, which was dedicated to be shared by all denominations with usage by the various groups an alternating Sundays.  Primitive Baptists dominated both the community and usage of the meetinghouse in its early years.  Dissension arose in their ranks in the following years over the preaching of “Campbellism”,…

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