Black River Presbyterian and Ivanhoe Baptist Churches
Black River Presbyterian and Ivanhoe Baptist Churches are two historic churches in Ivanhoe, Sampson County, North Carolina. They sit on SR 1102 east of SR 1100 and each has a cemetery nearby.
The Black River Presbyterian Cemetery holds the graves of early founders Patrick Murphy (1720–1785) and Elizabeth Kelso (1724–1798), immigrants from the Isle of Arran, who are buried there. Their original wooden grave markers were replaced by marble stones, now kept at the Sampson County History Museum.
The current Black River Presbyterian Church building was constructed in 1859. It is a one-story, temple-form church in the Greek Revival style with a prominent pillared front portico.
The Ivanhoe Baptist Church was built in 1893 or 1895 and is a simple, vernacular Gothic Revival frame church.
The Presbyterian congregation was founded in 1740 by Scots from the Isle of Arran and mainland Scotland.
The churches were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 and sit on about 7 acres.
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 01:56 (CET).