Smithfield, a village (pop. 800) of Virginia, on a navigable creek 24 miles WNW. of Norfolk, contains in St Luke's Episcopal Church (1632; built of imported brick) the oldest Protestant building in America, and after the adobe cathedral at Santa Fé the oldest surviving Christian edifice in the United States.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 522
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