First Ebenezer Baptist Church

This congregation began when a handful of slaves gathered for services on the Rhodes Plantation in August 1812. In 1851 Absalom A. Rhodes sold a quarter acre of land here for two dollars to the deacon board of Ebenezer Baptist ...

Great Swamp Baptist Church

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This church, organized October 12, 1845, was the result of a clash in doctrines at nearby Sardis Baptist Church. Some in the congregation favored the

primitive Baptist movement, but others, including Rev. John N. Youmans, favored a ministry based ...

Leadenhall Baptist Church

After the Civil War, a large number of black Baptists migrated to Baltimore. This church was organized in 1872 by black Baptists of the Sharp-Leadenhall area, with the help of the Maryland Baptist Union Association. It is the second oldest ...

Glen Allen Baptist Church

The Reverend Alexander Sands organized the Glen Allen Baptist Church on February 23,1868. The Congregation first met in a rose arbor nearby belonging to Mrs. Susan Sheppard Allen. On July 4,1868, the new church held a feast and raised $400 ...

Columbia Primitive Baptist Church

Columbia Primitive Baptist Church was formally constituted on the first Sunday in October, 1833, after serving as an arm of Bethany Church more than a year. Moses Dees was the first delegate from Columbia to the annual meeting of the ...

Sulphur Spring Baptist Church

According to local tradition, the Sulphur Spring Baptist Church was founded in 1867, when services were held in a brush arbor. During the Reconstruction period, formerly enslaved African Americans formed congregations throughout the South similar to this church. By 1876 ...

Bethany Baptist Church

Bethany Primitive Baptist Church was initiated as an arm of Union Church in 1841, and was formally constituted in May, 1847.

In the cemetery adjoining the church, on the high bluff of Arabia Bay, are buried many of the pioneers of ...

Morattico Baptist Church

On the hill is Morattico Church, organized in 1778, the mother Baptist church of the Northern Neck. The present building was erected in 1856. Lewis Lunsford, first pastor, is buried here.

Marker is at the intersection of Jessie Dupont Memorial Highway ...

Alfred Street Baptist Church

Alfred Street Baptist Church is home to the oldest

African American congregation in Alexandria,

dating to the early 19th century. It has served as a

prominent religious, educational, and cultural

institution. In 1818, the congregation, then known

as the Colored Baptist Society, began worship

services here ...

Hebron Baptist Church

Hebron Baptist Church, originally a Primitive Baptist Church in the Ocmulgee Circuit, later a Missionary Baptist Church, was built on 5 acres of land deeded by William Cleveland on December 23, 1812, to Isaac Morgan, Deacon, “for and in consideration ...