Second Baptist Church

The Second Baptist Church, constructed in 1914 to replace the original church building, houses Michigan's first African American congregation. The church was established in 1836, when 13 former slaves decided to leave the First Baptist Church because of its discriminatory ...

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

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 ...

Second Bethel Baptist Church

This frame vernacular style building was completed in 1888 and served as a school for the black community. The pastor, the Reverend Henry Shaw, was the first to minister to the local African American turpentine, sawmill and phosphate workers.

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Second Baptist Church / James P. Poindexter

Historic Underground Railroad Site

Side A:

Second Baptist Church - Columbus' Oldest Black Baptist Church, 1836

Second Baptist Church cordially received its independence as a mission church from the First Baptist Church on January 7, 1836. Rev. Ezekiel Fields was chosen as ...

Second Baptist Church

On Green Square

Was founded December 26, 1802

by Rev. Henry Cunningham and

Twenty-five other Baptists.

General William T. Sherman and

Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton

met with the Negroes of this city

and the newly freed slaves at

Second Baptist Church when Savannah

surrendered to General Sherman ...

Second Baptist Church

Side A:

This site has long served the religious, education, and public interests of the residents of Mechanicsburg. A local Methodist congregation built its first church here in 1820, and the townspeople also used the structure as its village school. The ...

Political Meeting at Second Baptist Church

In 1870, African American men in Circleville attempted to vote in municipal elections. Despite the recent ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, pollsters refused their votes on the basis that state law forbade them from receiving the ballots. The Second Baptist ...

Second Baptist Church

The church was founded by a small group of people under the leadership of Reverend Jordan D. Brown, in 1893. The church was chartered in 1919. Ground was broken for the present church in 1926 under Rev. G.E. Sallie. The ...

Second Baptist Church

In 1851 the Reverends J.W. Hackley and D.G. Lett organized the Second Baptist Church under the Anti-Slavery Baptist Association. The first of four churches—a log building—was erected on the southeast corner of Sixth and Ferry streets. In 1872 the building ...