First Baptist Church of Rockport

Organized in 1873, the First Baptist Church of Rockport originally was located on S. Church Street. L.D. Young served as the first pastor. The hurricane of 1919 destroyed the first church building, but the members built a new structure at ...

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 ...

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church, Savannah’s oldest standing house of worship, was designed by Elias Carter and completed in 1833. The congregation dates to 1800. In 1922 the front of the building was extended, and cupola removed, and the edifice covered with ...

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 ...

First Baptist Church, Georgetown

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, ...

First Baptist Church, Cowpens

Fourteen members met in the depot of the Atlanta & Charlotte Railroad on Aug. 13, 1878 to organize this church. The original one room frame building was erected on this site in 1879.

The second building made of hand-pressed brick in ...

The First Baptist Church of Christ

at Macon

This church was founded in 1826 as the city’s first Baptist congregation. It was first located at the site of the present Bibb County Courthouse. The fourth and final move, to this site, occurred in 1883 and the current ...

First Colored Baptist Church

The oldest black Baptist church in the city, the fellowship grew from the slave membership of the First Baptist Church of Austin. In 1854 the committee on religious conditions of the colored population recommended to the churches of the Austin ...

First Baptist Church

Organized in 1845, this church was the original Baptist witness in this city. Early meetings were held in homes, stores, and the Courthouse. The church moved to this site in 1889. Other Southern Baptist churches have been formed from this ...