Sardis Church Cemetery’s sign states that it was established in the late 1700s. However, the land wasn’t used as a burial ground until around the 1850s, according to Diane Luquire, ...

I remember hearing the sacred old songs that would make you feel so peaceful and so sublime from the little old church called Sardis there in the woods of Rowan County where I grew up. Sardis ...

At 4 p.m. Saturday, a small group of committed people, maybe 20 or so, will gather in a wooded area near Sardis Presbyterian Church to officially memorialize a cemetery where slaves and Native ...

Throughout its 140-plus-year existence, New Sardis has been a spiritual and social justice mainstay in the area and the rest of the community. The church even has its own museum of African ...