St. Mary's Chapel is a historic

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located near Hillsborough,

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. The congregation was established in 1759 by Anglicans, and united with the Episcopal Church of North Carolina in 1819. The

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style brick church building was constructed in 1858-59 and the adjacent cemetery contains graves dating to the 1700s. The property was listed on the

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in 1978.

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