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Excerpt from Christ Church, Rowan County: An Historical Sketch Christ's Church, though older than St. Luke's was originally a part of St. Luke's Parish. Rowan County and St. Luke's Parish were formed at the same time in 1753, and their boundaries were coterminous. They included all that vast territory south of. Vir ginia; west of the eastern boundaries of Randolph, Guilford, and Rockingham; and north of the Southern boundaries of Rowan and Iredell, crossing the Catawba river near Beatty's ford, through Lincoln, Cleveland, Rutherford, Buncombe, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, and Cherokee, and on west indefinitely to the Pacific Ocean. St. Luke's Parish included the territory occupied today by more than thirty counties in North Carolina, besides that in definite territory outside the present bounds of the state. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.