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The Daily Dispatch: September 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 11 (search)
Old St. Paul's" is undergoing some necessary improvements at this time. The growth of trees becoming too thick and foliage too dense, the branches intermingling so closely as to prevent the proper circulation of air, it has become requisite to cut down some of the trees and remove many large branches of those that are left standing to shade and ornament the sacred enclosure and add interest to the old church--a venerated relic of the past. St. Paul's Church (P. Episcopal) was erected in 1739 on "the road leading out of town. " The walls only escaped destruction from the general conflagration of '76. In the indentation made by a cannon shot from one of the British ships, fired by order of Dunmore, a ball has been placed, which was found imbedded in the earth near the part of the building that was struck. Like the sturdy old oak of the mountain, that defies the fury of the levelling tornado, and which has escaped the scattering thunderbolts of the God of Nature; or, like the