| Scope and content |
Consisting of Roanoke Quarterly Conference Journals, daybooks, roll books, copies of other roll books, church programs, genealogical material, photographs, periodicals, clippings and correspondence. Other materials include a daybook of Enfield dry goods merchant Wilson Gary Whitaker (1859); United Society of Christian Endeavor chapter records (1897-1911); a Christian Workers' Band minute book (1913-1914); Whitaker's Chapel membership books (1923-1948); a dessert recipe and home remedies book (1887); and a scrapbook of published poems about death and dying. |
| Access restriction | No access restrictions. |
| Cite as |
Whitaker's Chapel Collection (#CR0003), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
| Terms of use | Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law. |
| Acquisitions source |
Gift of Dr. Ralph Hardee Rives. |
| Acquisitions source |
Mrs. Drucilla H. York. |
| Biographical note | Whitaker's Chapel near Enfield, NC, was established as an Anglican chapel (1740), became Methodist (ca. 1776), and was the birthplace (1828) of the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church. The church remained open and functional until 1948 and the building was restored for periodic commemorative services, the first of these taking place on December 20, 1964. The United Methodist Church designated the building as one of two shrines in North Carolina (1970). |
