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Elizaville Presbyterian Church

church building in Kentucky, United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ5363912 ↗
Source-derived summary

Elizaville Presbyterian Church is a historic church on Kentucky Route 32 in Elizaville, Kentucky. It was built in 1861 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

It is a Flemish-bond brick front-gabled building which had an octagonal tower and spire over its entrance.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Elizaville Presbyterian Church” as church building in Kentucky, United States of America. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Elizaville, Presbyterian and Church.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1861, 1977—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Elizaville, Presbyterian and Church providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Elizaville Presbyterian Church”, the useful work is to connect “church building in Kentucky, United States of America” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5363912. Authority coordinates are 38.419, -83.824. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1861 and 1977.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Elizaville Presbyterian Church”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Elizaville Presbyterian Church primary sources, Elizaville Presbyterian Church archive and Elizaville research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Elizaville Presbyterian Church”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Elizaville Presbyterian Church” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.