Woodville School

Woodville School is an important monument to Gloucester County and the African American community who strove to ensure quality education for their children in the early 20th century. Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company, aided these efforts by ...

Skirmish at St. Mary’s

Victory or Death

Monday, August 8, 1864, was a hot and sultry day. Capt. John McMenamin of the 15th New York Volunteer Cavalry and Capt. James Fleming of the 16th New York Volunteer Cavalry had stopped at St. Mary's Church on ...

Gilliam Springs Baptist Church

Gilliam Springs Baptist Church was founded by nine charter members on November 25, 1882, under the leadership of the Rev. P.J. Corley in the Gilliam Springs School. The log school was located on the east side of North Main Street ...

First Baptist Church Convention

On this site May 8, 1845

The Southern Baptist Convention

was organized

by 327 delegates from the states of

Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisana, Kentucky and District of Columbia.

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The following officers were elected:

Rev. ...

This Demiculverin

Brought to Maryland in 1634 by the first colonists on the ships Ark and Dove, this demiculverin was presented to Charles Benedict Calvert of Riversdale in 1845. — Preservation and restoration was funded by the Maryland Heritage Committee of Prince ...

Mountain Creek Baptist Church

Organized in 1789 initially as an Arm

of the Shockley Ferry Church.

Known for a time as Bethesda.

Cooper Bennett was its first pastor.

The oldest church in the Saluda Baptist

Association, it has been a Lighthouse

for the lost ...

Bear Meat Cabin Road

Starting as an ancient Indian trail, the north–south road through Arab in 1816 was known as Bear Meat Cabin Road. By 1818, it had become an important Federal trade route through the Alabama Territory known as the St. Stephens – ...

First Baptist Church

Manakin

Organized as Dover Mines Church about 1863, First Baptist Church, Manakin is one of the oldest African American churches in Goochland County. Its members separated from Dover Baptist Church. Initially conducting their services at different sites, the Dover Mines ...

Welcome to Riversdale

The Stier-Calvert Mansion, 1801–1807

In the summer of 1794, as French Republican troops approached Antwerp, Flemish aristocrat Henri Joseph Stier (1743–1821) and his family fled to Philadelphia, taking with them their most valuable possessions, including the finest collection of Old ...

Laurens County / Laurens Historic District

Laurens County

Laurens County was one of six counties created from Ninety - Six District March 12, 1785. The courthouse here, built in 1838 by Dr. John W. Simpson, and remodeled and enlarged in 1858, 1911, 1940, and in 1973, ...