{"id":14239,"date":"2024-07-14T09:36:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T13:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=14239"},"modified":"2024-07-14T09:36:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T13:36:38","slug":"day-of-rest-141","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/day-of-rest-141\/","title":{"rendered":"day of rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14240\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/240710-Antioch-Methodist-Church.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1028\" height=\"741\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/240710-Antioch-Methodist-Church.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/240710-Antioch-Methodist-Church-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/240710-Antioch-Methodist-Church-1024x738.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/240710-Antioch-Methodist-Church-768x554.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Historical Background<br \/>Many of the churches of Allegheny were constructed around the late 19th and early 20th<br \/>century when access to sawmills encouraged a boom of church building. The earliest<br \/>surviving church building is the 1870 Piney Creek Baptist Church. Baptists and<br \/>Methodist churches dominate the landscape.&#8221; Typically these turn of the century<br \/>churches are plain, front-gabled, rectangular structures clad in weatherboard. Many of<br \/>the churches have projecting vestibules. Baptist Churches are more plain that Methodist.<br \/>The Antioch Methodist Church in Roaring Gap is one of a few churches with steeples.<br \/>Two churches stand out as more elaborate than most: Mt. Carmel Baptist Church and<br \/>Glade Valley Presbyterian. With their Gothic-influenced windows and bell towers, these<br \/>two churches stand out.<br \/>The Antioch Methodist Church in Roaring Gap was established on this site in 1850.<br \/>Among the early church leaders was the Reverend Morgan Bryant, renowned preacher in<br \/>Western North Carolina, and Reverend Thomas Smith. By 1880 the congregation had<br \/>diminished and the original log structure was in a state of disrepair. About 1895 the men<br \/>of the community led by John Simmons and his brother Thomas built the wood frame<br \/>church that stands today.32<br \/>The cemetery serves as the final resting-place for the first settlers of Alleghany County,<br \/>Absolom and Agnes Smith, who came to the area between 1770 and 1775. The Smiths<br \/>eloped to this area from Norfolk, Virginia, where Absolom was indentured to a wealthy<br \/>landowner. When Absolom fell in love with the landowner&#8217;s daughter, Agnes, the two<br \/>fled to North Carolina where Virginia laws had no jurisdiction.&#8211;NCDOT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-god"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14241,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14239\/revisions\/14241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}