Message: 3 Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:22:39 -0600 From: Sandi Gorin <sgorin@glasgow-ky.com> Subject: [SCKY] INDIAN CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH - FLIPPIN, KY To: SOUTH-CENTRAL-KENTUCKY@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.20061207152239.01018888@mail.glasgow-ky.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Do any of you know anything about the fire that destroyed the old Indian Creek Baptist Church in Flippin in Dec of 1893? They had just purchased a new stove pipe ... was this the cause? Arson? Any information appreciated! Sandi >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sandi, I grew up in this church, and I did some research on this back in the late 1960s just after a piece of tree bark and a photo had been gifted to the church. The bark had been preserved by the Downing family (who owned the original property), and came from a record-size Tulip Poplar tree that once grew in the community, which was cut for lumber for rebuilding the church. There is a historical marker in front of the church--see below, and the bark and photo are on display inside. As best I recall, the church minutes (which you're probably looking at) said nothing more than that the church house had been destroyed by fire. There wasn't any oral memory among church members about it at the time, either, as far as I know. My assumption was lightning, but perhaps the stove pipe was the cause of the fire! Charles R. Arterburn -------------- Famous Tree (Marker Number: 1394) County: Monroe Location: Indian Creek Church, Flippin, KY 249 Description: In 1894, a huge Tulip Poplar tree was felled about 1-1/2 miles south of this site. It measured 11 ft. in diameter, 35 ft. in circumference. Two six-foot saws were welded together to cut it. A four-foot log from the tree was transported to Chicago for exhibition at the 1893-94 Columbian World's Fair and Exposition, where it won a first prize. Over. (Reverse) Indian Creek Church - The main log from this tree supplied lumber to build the second Baptist Church house of Indian Creek, and a part of the Methodist Church. The first Baptist Church housed on this site was destroyed by fire in 1893. The second church house burned in 1921, and a third building was erected here. Over. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Any questions? Get answers on any topic at www.Answers.yahoo.com. Try it now.