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Rocky Spring Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church in Letterkenny Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1794, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, four by six bay, brick Georgian style building. It measures 48 feet by 60 feet, and has a gable roof. The interior of the church includes two ten-plate stoves; brick aisle ways; a crude ladder leading to a loft; and wooden pews that are long and narrow with high straight-backed seating. The ends of the pews are carved with the names of the previous occupants identifying the military ranks they held during the Revolutionary War. Rocky Springs Church was a pay for pew church that required members to sign a financial agreement between the trustees of the church and the pew holders requiring an annual fee for occupancy of the pew

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  • Rocky Spring Presbyterian Church (en)
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  • Rocky Spring Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church in Letterkenny Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1794, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, four by six bay, brick Georgian style building. It measures 48 feet by 60 feet, and has a gable roof. The interior of the church includes two ten-plate stoves; brick aisle ways; a crude ladder leading to a loft; and wooden pews that are long and narrow with high straight-backed seating. The ends of the pews are carved with the names of the previous occupants identifying the military ranks they held during the Revolutionary War. Rocky Springs Church was a pay for pew church that required members to sign a financial agreement between the trustees of the church and the pew holders requiring an annual fee for occupancy of the pew (en)
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  • Rocky Spring Presbyterian Church (en)
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  • Rocky Spring Presbyterian Church (en)
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  • Beatty, Walter (en)
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  • Georgian (en)
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  • Rocky Spring Road, approximately 0.5 miles northwest of Funk Road, Letterkenny Township, Pennsylvania (en)
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  • Rocky Spring Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church in Letterkenny Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1794, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, four by six bay, brick Georgian style building. It measures 48 feet by 60 feet, and has a gable roof. The interior of the church includes two ten-plate stoves; brick aisle ways; a crude ladder leading to a loft; and wooden pews that are long and narrow with high straight-backed seating. The ends of the pews are carved with the names of the previous occupants identifying the military ranks they held during the Revolutionary War. Rocky Springs Church was a pay for pew church that required members to sign a financial agreement between the trustees of the church and the pew holders requiring an annual fee for occupancy of the pew. The Church's pulpit is circular in form and positioned above the pews giving the speaker full view of the congregation. Access is gained by a staircase. Above the pulpit is an oval-shaped canopy or sounding board. Five acres of land to build the church was acquired by warrant on November 6, 1792. Trustees of the congregation who acquired the land upon which to build the church included: George Matthews, Esq.; James McCalmont, Esq.; James Ferguson, Esq.; James Culbertson, Esq.; and Samuel Culbertson. The property includes the church cemetery, with the oldest grave stone dated to the 1780s. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. Each year the church is opened for an annual Presbyterian service giving the people in attendance an opportunity to experience the austere beauty of the church. * Drawing made in 1894 for the centennial * Rocky Spring Church, 2013 * Pews carved with the name of the pew holder * Straight-backed, carved, pews and crude ladder to loft * Church cemetery (en)
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