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Harshaw Chapel and Cemetery

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Architect
  
Cooper,James Warner

NRHP Reference #
  
84001979

Year built
  
1869

Architectural style
  
Greek Revival

Area
  
2,000 m²

Added to NRHP
  
5 April 1984

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Location
  
Church and Central Sts., Murphy, North Carolina

Harshaw Chapel and Cemetery is a historic Methodist chapel and cemetery at Church and Central Streets in Murphy, Cherokee County, North Carolina. The chapel was built by Joshua Harshaw, who was a prominent slaveholder. The chapel was built about 1869, and is a vernacular Greek Revival style brick church. The surrounding Murphy Methodist Cemetery contains graves dated as early as about 1840.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

References

Harshaw Chapel and Cemetery Wikipedia


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