First Baptist Church / Mt. Olive CME Church

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First Baptist Church

The First Baptist Church was designed by architect R. H. Hunt and built in 1906. It is constructed of yellow bricks along a Georgian-architectural style. It housed a congregation of 2,200 members which organized the first Sunday ...

Site of First Baptist Church

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century, two black preachers, first Moses, then Gowan Pamphlet, began holding religious services out of doors for free blacks and slaves in the Williamsburg area. Although identified as an organized Baptist church by ...

Flat Rock Baptist Church

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One of the oldest Baptist churches in Western North Carolina. It was constituted as Petty's Meeting House on June 10, 1783. The name was changed to Flat Rock Baptist Church in 1802. Under the leadership of William Petty, the ...

Second Baptist Church World War II Memorial

In Honor and Memory

Of the Members of the Second Baptist Church who served in

World War II

Herman A Arrowood - Fred A Johnson

Willard W. Batson - J.Clyde Jones

R.Douglas Bishop - Glover Y.Jones

Hubert E.Bishop - Ray F.Jones

Charles R.Brown. Jr. - Roy F.Jones

Lee ...

Barnwell Baptist Church Cemetary

Sometimes called the Red Hill Cemetary

Original Site of Barnwell First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is the Oldest Continual

Institution in Barnwell Established in 1502

Both the 1850 building and the 1926 building

stood on this site.

Earlier Church Buildings were located nearby

the ...

Springhill Baptist Church and Cemetery

The oldest church in Taylor County, Springhill Missionary Baptist Church was built in 1853 in the area then known as Rosehead. In 1923 the church was burned down by the Ku Klux Klan and many families fled the area in ...

National Historic Landmark - Centennial Baptist Church

Centennial Baptist Church was the home base for Reverend (Dr.) Elias Camp Morris from the dedication of the church in 1905 until his death in 1922. While serving as pastor, Dr. Morris was president (1895-1922) of the National Baptist Convention ...

Tabernacle Baptist Church

This church was founded in 1893 as Mount Olive Baptist Church. In 1894, the first public black school in West Palm Beach was organized and held classes in the church through 1896. Built in 1925, this Neo-Romanesque Revival style structure ...

St. James First Missionary Baptist Church

This church was founded in 1876 by freed blacks from Georgia, Alabama, and North Florida who had come to the Keys to work on Henry Flagler's railroad. Today's masonry building is built around the wood original.

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St. John's Baptist Church

The congregation was organized in 1906. The current building, designed by the black architectural firm of McKissack and McKissack, was completed in 1940. The two-story masonry building is a rare example of the Art Deco style in Overtown.

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