Fishtrap United Baptist Church, Paint Creek, Manila

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Religious Services. The church is to he relocated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District, in order to protect it from flooding due to the construction of a dam and resevoir by impounding Paint Creek. The church will be moved to Federal prop- erty on the Colvin Branch.

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Fishtrap United Baptist Church, built I8U3, "was among the earliest log churches in Johnson County (Hall, Johnson County, page Covered with weatherboard in the late century, the church is notable for its simplicity and fine interior woodwork. PART I. HISTORICAL INFORMATION A. History of Structure: The Union Association of United Baptists in Kentucky was orga- nized in October by Elders William Wells, Wallace Bailey, Elijah Prater and John Borders, In 18U0 they became aware that there was another Union Association of United Baptists in Kentucky and added Paint (as they were near Paint Creek) to their name to differentiate between the two groups. The church bought land for a building from Alexander Pelphrey on June 13, I8U3 for The church, built circa was of hewn logs.

Local sources indicate that each member of the congregation was obliged to furnish a log or logs for the con- struction of the church. The first minister of the church was Reverend James Pelphrey. The structure was covered with weather- board and a tin roof during the late nineteenth century. FISHTRAP UNITED BAPTIST CHURCH HABS No. (Page 2) B.

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1. Primary and unpublished sources: Washington, National Register of Historic Places. Determination of Eligibility Fishtrap United Baptist Church. (by Robert Maslowski, Rahenkamp, Sachs, Wells and Associates. Paintsville Lake, Environmental Assessment. Huntington: United States Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District, 2. Secondary and published sources: Hall, Mitchell. Johnson County, Kentucky. Volume 1. Louisville: The Standard Press, Prepared by Mary Beth Betts Historic American Buildings Survey April from research compiled by Robert Maslowski Archeologist United States Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District April 21, PART II. ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION The church is a one story, rectangular, 30' 5" (three bay front) x 5" building.

It has two shuttered windows on each elevation, and a double door on the northwest (front) elevation, with a concrete porch. The gable roof is covered with tin and there is a red brick chimney. The thickness of the walls suggests that the structure was built of half timbers six to seven inches thick. It is now covered with weatherboard. The church sits up off of the ground on hand-cut sandstone pedestals, some of which have been placed on concrete slabs. Hand-hewn poplar beams are set directly on the pedestals. The exterior floor is made of sawmill lumber. On the interior the church is a large room with a pulpit at the southwest end and wooden pews. The floor is covered with finished soft woods.

The height of the room from floor to ceiling is The structure formerly heated with a potbellied stove and lighted with kerosene lanterns and lamps, is now heated by a centrally located floor furnace and a gas fur- nace located in the northeast corner. FISHTRAP UNITED BAPTIST CHURCH HABS No.'Kr-135 (Page 3) The "building is situated on a terrace on the north side of Paint Creek. It is "bordered "by Paint Creek on the southwest and sandstone cliffs on the northeast. Prepared "by Mary Beth Betts Historic American Buildings Survey April from research compiled "by Robert Maslowski Archeologist United States Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District August 21, PART III.

PROJECT INFORMATION This project was undertaken by the Corps of Engineers, Huntington District in compliance with Executive Order and a Memorandum of Agreement with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation as a mitigative effort in the construction of Paintsville Dam and Resevoir. John A. Burns, AIA was the HABS project coordinator. The historical and architectural writ- ten data was prepared in the HABS office "by Mary Beth Betts in April s from research compiled "by Robert "Maslowski, Archeologist, United States Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District, August 21, Photo- graphs were taken by Ted Hegecock in June