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North River church demolished

Raissa Tetanish - Truro Daily News

Cindy Lynds Handren watches as the Aenon Baptist Church in North River is demolished on Wedesday. The North River resident has many memories from the church, including thinking the minister was drowning her mother during her mother's baptism.

Published on January 16, 2013; Published on January 16, 2013

NORTH RIVER - It was a sad day for residents here as they stood and watched an excavator bring down the walls of the Aenon Baptist Church.

Topics :: Aenon Chapel Meeting House , North River

Cindy Lynds Handren stood by watching and reminiscing with her father, Stewart Lynds, about the days.

"I have mixed emotions," Lynds Handren said. "It's sad to see it go, but it needed to. It was a hazard."

Lynds Handren said her grandmother, Prudence Lynds, was a member of the church and assisted in getting the cemetery active.

"I remember sitting on the pews and kicking my feet on the back of the pew in front of me and my grandmother swatting my knee to get me to stop," she said.

The church was founded in 1865, with the Aenon Chapel Meeting House built about 10 years prior. The cemetery was incorporated in April 1954, however many of the monuments date back to 1862.

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