New Dublin Presbyterian Church

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This congregation, one of the oldest in Southwest Virginia, consisted of 45 families by 1769. Col. Joseph Cloyd, a Revolutionary War officer, donated land for its first sanctuary, built 1/2 mile east of here ca. 1781. The present sanctuary (ca. 1875), the third on the site, blends Greek Revival and Gothic Revival architecture. Members in the mid-19th century included enslaved African Americans. The church housed a Confederate military hospital during the Civil War, and the home guard mustered nearby before the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain on 9 May 1864. The cemetery reflects Victorian funerary art and is the burial place of veterans of the Civil War and World Wars I and II.

Department of Historic Resources, 2019

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

New Dublin Presbyterian Church National Register of Historic Places nomination (2004). Joseph W. Guthrie, “A Brief History of New Dublin Presbyterian Church, 1769-2004,” (2004). Presbytery Session Minutes of Hanover, 1755-1786. Sessional Records of New Dublin Church, vol. 2 (1849). Janet Hudson, “The New Dublin Presbyterian Church and the Southern Presbyterian Church, Civil War Period” (Honors Thesis, Illinois Wesleyan University, 1969). Mary B. Kegley and F.B. Kegley, Early Adventures of the Western Waters (Orange, VA: Green Publishers, 1980). Mary B. Kegley, “Joseph Cloyd,” Dictionary of Virginia Biography, vol. 3 (Richmond, Library of Virginia, 2006). “150th Battle of Cloyd’s Mountain,” (Commemorative Booklet, County of Pulaski, 2014). Conway Howard Smith, The Land that is Pulaski County (Pulaski County Library Board, 1980). Conway Howard Smith, Colonial Days in the Land that Became Pulaski County (Pulaski County Library Board, 1975). R. Lloyd Mathews, Pulaski County, Virginia: An Historic & Descriptive Sketch, 1907-2007 (2007). “Southern Iron Crosses of Honor Dedication” (pamphlet, 2017). Roanoke Times, 11, 18 Oct. 1959.