Regions: Southeast States — Histories

We will be posting links to key books over the next several months. Check back on our progress.

Florida
The early planting of Presbyterianism in West Florida. McIlwain, William E. Pensacola: Mayes Printing Co., 1926. Courtesy of the State University System of Florida.

North Carolina
History of the Presbyterian Church in New Bern, NC, with a resume of early ecclesiastical affairs in eastern North Carolina. (Rev. L. C. Vass, AM, 1886, Richmond),
courtesy of Eastern Carolina University Online Books

First Presbyterian ministers, missionaries & churches in North Carolina. Chapter 13, Sketches of North Carolina, Historical & Biographical. Foote, William Henry. New York City: Robert Carter, 1846. Courtesy of Google Digital Books.

Tennessee
The Tennesseean in Persia and Koordistan. Being scenes and incidents in the life of Samuel Audley Rhea. By Rev. Dwight W. Marsh, for ten years missionary in Mosul.
Marsh, Dwight Whitney (1823 - 1896). Philadelphia: Presbyterian publication committee, 1869. Courtesy of Making of America Books, Univ. of Mich. Library

Virginia
1886 Centennial Map of the Synod of Lexington. A centennial map of the Lexington Presbytery of the Synod of Virginia of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, organized Sept. 26, 1786, centennial Sept. 26, 1886, at Timber Ridge Church / by Jed. Hotchkiss, Top. Eng. Courtesy The Library of Congress.

Other Regions
               Mid-Atlantic States
               Midwest States

Church Photographs:
      Alabama
      Arkansas
      Florida
      Georgia
      Louisiana
      Mississippi
      North Carolina
      South Carolina
      Tennessee
      Virginia

The Presbyterian Heritage Center at Montreat is willing to review the following for possible inclusion in its permanent archival collection (after January 2008):

• Photographs
• Artifacts
• Manuscripts, letters, documents not required to be deposited with the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia or at a Presbyterian Seminary, such as Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA.
• Reference & research books
• Maps
• Montreat brochures and other paper ephemera.

We are specializing in the history of Montreat and Presbyterianism both in the U.S. and through American missionaries around the world.

A more detailed Collection Guideline will be issued in late November 2007.

If you have a question or have something you wish to consider donating or leanding to the Presbyterian heritage Center at Montreat, please contact us (click to email) before sending anything. Thank you.