Eastern Star Baptist Church was a historic

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church located at Church and Wagner Streets in Tarboro,

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. The church was built about 1875, and was a one-story,

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style building. It was built by a

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congregation, then moved to its final location and used by the African-American Eastern Star Baptist Church starting in 1906. It has been demolished. It was listed on the

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in 1980.

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