Hopewell Presbyterian Church is a historic

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complex and national

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located near Huntersville, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The church was built in 1833–1835, renovated and enlarged in 1859–1860, and expanded by a Sunday School addition in 1928. It is a "U"-shaped brick and brick veneer building composed of three connected blocks all covered with front-gable roofs. The church is a rectangular gable-front brick building standing on a low mortared fieldstone foundation and

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style design elements. Also on the property are the contributing pumphouse (c. 1925),

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gate (1845), and cemetery with burials dating to 1775. The cemetery contains one of the two largest collections of box and chest tombs in North Carolina. General William Lee Davidson of the North Carolina militia, killed in 1781 at the Battle of Cowan's Ford during the

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, is buried in the cemetery. It was added to the

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in 1996.

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Presbyterian churches in North Carolina Cemeteries in North Carolina Protestant Reformed cemeteries Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Colonial Revival architecture in North Carolina Churches completed in 1835 Churches in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina {{NorthCarolina-church-stub