Mount Olive Baptist Church (Morganton, N.C.) records, CRMF341, Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
These two reels of microfilm contain the records for Mount Olive Baptist Church in Morganton, North Carolina for the period from 1884 to 1972. The first reel contains a book of history on the church until 1965. This book contains an account of the church's history, a list of pastors, a list of deacons, a list of Sunday School superintendents, its rules of decorum, its articles of faith and its church covenant, as well as a few photographs. The second reel contains three books of minutes. Book 1 covers the period from 1920 to 1952. Book 2 covers 1960-1970. Book 3 covers 1970-1972. All three of these books contain the church's membership lists and the minutes from its meetings. In addition, Book 1 contains the church's rules of decorum and its articles of faith.
Purchased from the North Carolina Department of Archives and History in 1973.
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Mount Olive Baptist Church was first organized in 1884. It takes its name from a suggestion offered by church member Mrs. Leander Morrison. In the year 1900, a new building was constructed to house the church. Another new building would be constructed in 1928, and in 1962, an educational building was added.
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