Editing Prospect, North Carolina (section)

==Churches in Prospect==
Unlike the majority of Robeson County, the boundary of Prospect Community contains almost exclusively [[Methodist]] churches; the Methodist churches included within Prospect are [[Prospect United Methodist Church]], [[Prospect Methodist Church]], [[New Prospect Church]], and [[New Prospect Methodist Church]].<ref>Google. "Churches in Prospect, NC." Accessed March 29, 2015. https://www.google.com/maps/search/churches+in+prospect,+nc/@34.7375482,-79.2147561,13z</ref> Prospect United Methodist Church was itself founded by the Reverend W. L. Moore, the grandfather of Adolph Dial, founder of the American Indian Studies department at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.<ref>Linda Oxendine, "Remembering Adolph Dial: A Man for all Seasons", last updated September 4, 2013, [https://archive.today/20150418232223/http://robesonian.com/news/news_local_features/2403182/Remembering-Adolph-Dial:-A-man-for-all-seasons].</ref> Notably, [[Island Grove Baptist Church]] and Preston Gospel Chapel are the only non-Methodist churches in the community. Island Grove having broken-off from the theology to join the [[Burnt Swamp Baptist Association]] in 1955.<ref>Burnt Swamp Baptist Association, ''The History of Burnt Swamp Baptist Association and its Churches'' (2002), 70.</ref> Preston Gospel Chapel was originally called Doogle Hill and was located about a half mile east of the current location. It was established by the Scottish around 1875 as part of the [[Open Brethren|Assembly Movement]]. Preston's original sanctuary was built in 1948. The present sanctuary was built in the late 1970s with the addition of a fellowship hall and small apartment for visiting preachers in the 1990s.