Description: Murphy, NORTH CAROLINA - Field of The Woods - Ten Commandments - Church of God: Murphy is a town in and the county seat of Cherokee County, North Carolina, United States. It is situated at the confluence of the Hiwassee and Valley rivers. It is the westernmost county seat in the state of North Carolina, approximately 360 miles (580 km) from the state capital in Raleigh. The population of Murphy was 1,627 at the 2010 census. Fields of the Wood is a Christian religious park of more than 200 acres in Cherokee County, North Carolina, owned by the Church of God of Prophecy—a Holiness Pentecostal denomination. It is best known for its 300-foot-wide, mountainside representation of the Ten Commandments. Fields of the Wood was the creation of A. J. Tomlinson (1865-1943), ultimate founder of the several Holiness Pentecostal denominations called the Church of God, five of which have headquarters in Cleveland, Tennessee. In 1940, Tomlinson, as head of the Church of God of Prophecy, returned to the area to memorialize the place where he said God had revealed to him the true church in 1903—he having realized that in the same year he had founded the Church in the extreme southwestern county of North Carolina, the Wright Brothers had made their first successful flight in the extreme far eastern part of the state. ] Tomlinson believed that the same chapter in the Book of Isaiah had predicted both. Tomlinson named the park "Fields of the Wood" after a reference in the King James Version of Psalms 132: 6: "We found it in the fields of the wood." In 1941, Tomlinson dedicated the site with a sermon while church-leased airplanes dropped gospel tracts to fulfill Deuteronomy 32: 2: "May my teaching drop as the rain." Some temporary markers were placed on the site in 1940, but most permanent construction occurred after 1943 under the direction of Tomlinson's son, M. A. Tomlinson, and other leaders of the Church of God of Prophecy. This Photochromatic postcard, copyrighted in 1955, is in good condition. Color King Natural Color Card. Chattanooga, Tenn. No. 8285.
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Unit of Sale: Single Unit
Size: Standard (5.5x3.5 in)
Material: Paper
Year Manufactured: 1955
City: Murphy
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Brand/Publisher: Color King Natural Color Card
Subject: Ten Commandments
Continent: North America
Type: Printed (Lithograph)
Era: Photochrome (1939-Now)
Region: North Carolina
Country: United States
Theme: Architecture, Cities & Towns, Landscapes, Religious, Field of The Woods, Church of God, Cherokee County, Church of God of Prophecy, Holiness Pentecostal
Features: Panoramic
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Postage Condition: Unposted
