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National Historic Landmark- Dexter Ave. Baptist Church

This small, eclectic-style church (1878) served as the original headquarters of the Montgomery Improvement Association, headed by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), which carried out a successful boycott of segregated city buses in 1955.

"The National Register of Historic Places, ...

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National Historic Landmark- Bethel Baptist Church

The Bethel Baptist Church, Parsonage, and Guardhouse are associated with the first organized movement of the modern civil rights movement that attacked multiple aspects of segregation.

While earlier organized movements focused on bus segregation, the Alabama Christian Movement for Human ...

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Historic Springfield Baptist Church

Springfield Baptist Church was established on January 27, 1864 prior to the abolition of slavery, and is among the first African-American churches founded in Middle Georgia. Enslaved workers purchased land from Mrs. Nancy Bickers and began monthly meetings. Levi Thornton, ...

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Historic Church

This church was built in 1836 by Beech Island Presbyterian Church, organized in 1827 with the Rev. Nathan H. Hoyt of Vermont as first pastor. His son-in-law the Rev. Edward Axson, was ordained and served here. His daughter, Ellen, wife ...

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Historic Freedom Plains Church

Town of La Grange

Historic

Freedom Plains Church

- ( Presbyterian ) –

Built 1828 – Restored 1970

Chapel 1914 – Community Hall

Education Building 1956

1973 – Women's

Republican Club

Marker is at the intersection of Freedom Plains Road ...

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Historic Utoy Church

Utoy Primitive Baptist Church, the oldest Baptist Church in present Fulton County, was constituted August 15, 1824, in a log house just west of here. The church was moved to its present location in the summer of 1828.

In 1864 the ...

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Historic Baptist Church

Circa 1884

On May 17, 1872, seventeen people convened in the Community House on Church Street or “Holy Row,” now called Sunset Drive, in the fledgling town of Norcross. During the meeting, this inspired group organized The Baptist Church of Christ ...

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Historic Polegreen Church

In 1747, the meetinghouse here became vital to the colonists' struggle for religious and civil liberty when Samuel Morris and other Hanover Presbyterian dissenters called the Rev. Samuel Davies (1723-1761) to become pastor. Davies, a great orator who inspired Patrick ...

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Historic Bell From St. Dominic's Church at Iowa Hill

Bell was originally erected

there in 1860. It was place

here in October 1988.

Marker is on Oak Street near Auburn Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Historic First Reformed Church

Earliest records of this pioneer Dutch church, dated 1686, mark it as the second oldest in New Jersey. Old stones embedded in the east wall show the initials of founding families and first settlers.

The old burying ground contains the grave ...

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