Chapel Hill Church Tabernacle is a historic

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located near Denton,

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. It was built in 1870 and enlarged in the 1920s. It is a one-story, heavy-timber, open-framework building, open on three sides. It has a concrete floor and a gable-on-hip roof. The tabernacle was originally used for the religious services at the annual

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s. The tabernacle is located on the grounds of Chapel Hill United Methodist Church, whose congregation dates from 1854. It was added to the

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in 2012.

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Chapel Hill United Methodist Church
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