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The Second Freewill Baptist (Pond Street) Church
This historic congregation was a leader in the anti-slavery movement. Emancipation day celebration and served as a station on the underground railroad
Marker is on Chester Ave, on the left when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
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Freewill Baptist Church
Restored
Wisconsin’s first Freewill Baptist congregation, organized by Yankee pioneers Rev. Rufus Cheney July 11, 1840, Built this Greek revival style edifice, 1859. As Abolitionists, they were active here in the Civil War.
But the dwindling congregation disbanded in 1925, incorporating ...
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