Old School Baptist Church

Circa 1805

Has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is on Main Street (New Jersey Route 535) near Thomas Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Hampton Baptist Church

In 1791 Grafton Baptist Church, in York County, founded a mission in Hampton, Hampton Baptist Church, which called its first pastor, Richard Hurst, in 1806. After the War of 1812, the church began to grow so that it had 185 ...

Clifton Baptist Church / First Baptist Church

Clifton Baptist Church

This church, originally called Clifton Baptist Church, was founded in 1881 with ten charter members and Rev. T.J. Taylor as its organizing minister. Rev. W.T. Tate was its first permanent minister. Admitted into the Broad River Association later ...

First Baptist Church

1800 Sesquicentennial 1950

On November 26, 1800 the Reverend Henry Holcombe

and fifteen other Baptists organized the Savannah

Baptist Church. As early as 1795 a group of interested

Baptists had erected a house of worship on Franklin

Square where the congregation worshipped for

thirty-three years. The ...

Political Meeting at Second Baptist Church

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First Baptist Church Of Merton

This is the former site of the First Baptist Church of Merton founded August 31, 1843 with nine members. This edifice, erected in 1855, is of historic architecture of Greek Revival with Colonial features. It is a selection of the ...

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The origin of this congregation can be traced to 1875, when members of a Sunday School class affiliated with First Baptist Church met to plan the organization of a separate church to serve the needs of the city's African-American residents. ...

Needwood Baptist Church and Needwood School

Needwood Baptist Church was organized in 1866 on nearby Broadfield Plantation as Broadfield Baptist Church of the Zion Baptist Association. This structure, built in the 1870s, was redesigned in 1885 when the church moved its congregation here. Its formation and ...

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2624 Dumbarton Street, NW

The first Baptist church established in Georgetown was funded in 1862 by the Reverend Sandy Alexander (1818-1902), a former slave who led the church until 1889. Among the founding members was Collins Williams, a preacher from Fredericksburg, ...