Steeple catches fire

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Coy C. Carpenter Library

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Published in: North Carolina Baptist Hospital Topics. October 1959. p.1.

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Lightning set fire to North Carolina Baptist Hospital's Davis Memorial Chapel steeple during a severe thunderstorm on August 29, 1959. Heavy rainfall knocked out all of the outside telephone lines of the Hospital when it flooded a nearby underground cable. Firefighters are shown here extinguishing the blaze.

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Forsyth County (N.C.) -- History -- Pictorial works, Forsyth County (N.C.) -- History -- Sources, Digital Forsyth

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