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Celebrating 275 Years
FOUNDED BEFORE FREEDOM. 1749.
Rowan Baptist Church
Rowan Baptist Church organized in 1749 as Great Cohera General Baptist Church, by Reverend Edward Brown. Brown was the first minister, and served from 1749-1783. Rowan was known to be the first Baptist Church between Smithfield and Wilmington, NC.
OUR PREACHERS 1749-PRESENT
Clay Carter
2016-present
N. Ray Phillips
2003-2015
Gregory A. Day
1997-2001
Karl Pittard
1994-1996
Richard Moretz
1990-1992
C. Michael Shook
1979-1989
D. Dana Scrivner
Millard M. Johnson
1952-1974
Roy R. McCulloch
1947-1952
E. Sumpter Morgan
1944-1947
Edward A. Walker
1940-1944
E.C. Chamblee
1938-1940
H.G. Bryant
1935-1937
W.R. Beach
1928-1934
N.D. Blackman
1924-1928
N.E. Gresham
1923
A.L. Turner
1920-1923
E.L. Weston
1916-1919
B.F. Deloache
1910-1915
Jesse Martin Page
1906-1910
J.D. Larkins
1902-1906
J.J. Douglas
1900-1902
O.P. Meeks
1892-1897
G.S. Best
1889-1892
W.H. Howard
1886-1889
J.O. Tew
1882-1886
J.W. Bell
1879-1882
W.H. Howard
1877-1878
H.J. Duncan
1875-1877
Alfred Guy
1871-1872
W.H. Howard
1870
G.S. Best
1857-1861
William Kennedy
1854-1857
Lewis Johnson
1852
George Wallace
1851
Stephen Senter
1849
Jerry Howell
1847-1848
S.F. Williams
1846
Stephen Senter
1845-1846
J.W. West
1844-1845
D.L. Williams
1836-1844
George Brown
1831-1836
Joshua Sikes
1790-1808
William Cooper
1786-1790
Fleet Cooper
1785-1786
Edward Brown
1749-1783
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