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Buffalo Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

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Buffalo Mountain Presbyterian Church
Buffalo Mountain Presbyterian Church

Buffalo Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church located near Willis, Floyd County, Virginia. It was the first of the 5 "rock churches" founded by Bob Childress. It was built in 1929, and is a rock-faced frame building with a nave plan and front and rear transepts. The nave measures 33 feet wide and 80 feet long. It has a steeply-pitched gable roof covered with standing seam sheet metal. The contributing Cemetery has a continuous wall of mortared quartzitic fieldstones, matching the church exterior.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

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