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Skewarkey Primitive Baptist Church

North Carolina, US

Skewarkey Primitive Baptist Church

Skewarkey Primitive Baptist Church is a historic Primitive Baptist church located near Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina. It was built in 1858–1859, and is a one-story, front-gable timber-frame building in a simply rendered Greek Revival style. The building measures just over 60 feet deep a

nd 40 feet wide. Located on the property is the contributing church cemetery. A historic marker denoting the history of the church was erected in 1959 by the state of North Carolina. Joseph Needleman was attacked and castrated in the area just behind the church in 1925; the location of the attack is sometimes given as the church cemetery. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

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