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Massaponax Baptist Church: Massaponax Baptist Church: January 24, 1991 : Junction of U.S. Route 1 and Massaponax Church Rd. Massaponax: Built in 1859 and site of council of war with Grant, Meade, and other Union generals 9: Oakley
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Salem, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
The Baptist congregation that built the church was established in 1788 at a small church near Massaponax Creek. When that building became too small to hold the growing congregation, the church was moved to its present location at the intersection of U.S. Route 1 and State Route 608 (Massaponax Church Road). The new church was a small, frame ...
Spotsylvania County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is a suburb approximately 60 miles (90km) south of D.C. It is a part of the Northern Virginia region and the D.C. area. As of 2024, Spotsylvania County is the 14th most populated county in Virginia with 149,588 residences. [7] Its county seat is Spotsylvania Courthouse. [8]
Mount Salem Baptist Meetinghouse, also known as Mount Salem Baptist Church, is a historic Baptist meeting house located near Washington, Rappahannock County, Virginia. It was built in 1850–1851, and is a one-story, stuccoed stone building. It measures 40 feet by 50 feet and is topped by a gable roof.
Associated with the courthouse is a late 18th-century jail and office and storage buildings erected in the 1930s. Other notable buildings include the Spottswood Inn (c. 1800), Berea Church (1856), Christ Church (1841), Dabney Farm, J.P.H. Crismond House (c. 1904), Harris House, and Cary Crismond House. [3]
Seeking religious freedom and economic opportunity, in 1781 Rev. Lewis Craig led a group numbering "perhaps five or six hundred" [1] people known as "The Travelling Church" composed of a core comprised by a majority of the Baptist congregation of Lewis' Upper Spottsylvania church, [2] along with other settlers joining in, to the area of Virginia known as Kentucky County.
St. Julien is an historic plantation home located in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. The main house was built by Francis Taliaferro Brooke in 1794, with an addition added in 1812. [3] There are several outbuildings that surround the main house. They include a slave quarters, smokehouse, milk house and law office used by Francis Brooke. [4]