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. James, Goose Creek Chapel of Ease / Bethlehem Baptist Church

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St. James, Goose Creek Chapel of Ease

One of two chapels of ease for St. James, Goose Creek Parish stood here on the road to Moncks Corner, about 7 miles from the 1719 parish church. The chapel of ease was ...

St. James Baptist Church

This church, founded in 1886 by former members of First African Baptist Church, is one of the oldest surviving institutions remaining from the town of Mitchelville, a freedmen’s village established here by the United States Army in 1862. The present ...