Fork Union Baptist Church
Fork Union Baptist Church was constituted in
1798. Presbyterian, Episcopal, Methodist,
and Baptist congregations shared as a place
of worship the current church, built in 1824
and first known as the Brick Meetinghouse.
Gen. John Hartwell Cocke, a local plantation
owner who assisted Thomas Jefferson in
establishing the University of Virginia, was
its architect. It is the oldest Church building
in Fluvanna County in continuous use for
that purpose. In 1898, ten of its members
became the original guarantors of Fork
Union Military Academy. The church
sanctuary was the site of the first and
subsequent academy graduations until 1937.
Marker is at the intersection of James Madison Highway (U.S. 15) and West River Road (Virginia Route 6), on the right when traveling south on James Madison Highway.
Courtesy hmdb.org
