File:Old Riverview Baptist Church, Webster, NC (39650393973).jpg
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| Description | This is the former Riverview Baptist Church, located along North River Road overlooking the Tuckaseigee River between Webster and Dillsboro, North Carolina. Constructed circa 1943, the brick church served a small Sub-Saharan African community that once existed in the area, and was an outgrowth of another, older community in Webster that centered around an old wood-frame church during the late 19th Century and early 20th Century. Unlike the older church, which burned down in 1982, the Riverview Baptist Church still stands, but has been abandoned for several decades, with the building in an increasingly dilapidated state due to decades of abandonment. The church’s surrounding environment is also a microcosm of the status of many historically minority-populated areas around the United States, with the Tuckasegee Water and Sewer Authority, which serves the towns of Cullowhee, Webster, Sylva, and Dillsboro building a water treatment plant adjacent to the church during the 1970s or 1980s, taking advantage of the low land prices in the area, which is home to dirt roads and several manufactured trailer homes, and contributing to making the area one of the most undesirable to live in within the county, due to the smell of sewage that constantly fills the air. This has resulted in the further erosion of the community that once existed around the church, leading to there being few prospects for reuse or renovation of the building, which continues to fall further into a state of dilapidation. |
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| Source | Old Riverview Baptist Church, Webster, NC |
| Author | Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States |
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