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During the meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Richmond, Virginia, in May 1888, a group of women delegates from 12 states gathered at the Broad Street United Methodist Church and organized the Executive Committee of the Woman's Mission Societies, Auxiliary to Southern Baptist Convention. In previous years, women had been meeting ...
The Bank of Springfield Center (originally the Prairie Capital Convention Center) is a 7,700-seat multi-purpose arena located in Springfield, Illinois. [1]The facility is adaptable to host a variety of events, including large concerts, theatrical performances, trade shows, sporting events, and school graduation ceremonies, as well as smaller gatherings such as professional training meetings ...
The NAACP of Springfield is hosting its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day March at 8:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 15.
The St. John's Congregational Church and Parsonage-Parish for Working Girls are a pair of historic religious buildings at 69 Hancock and 643 Union Streets in Springfield, Massachusetts. The church, built in 1911 for an African-American congregation founded in 1889, is a well-preserved example of English and Gothic Revival architecture.
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Springfield is the capital city of the U.S. state of Illinois and the seat of Sangamon County.The city's population was 114,394 at the 2020 census, which makes it the state's seventh-most populous city, [10] the second-most populous outside of the Chicago metropolitan area (after Rockford), and the most populous in Central Illinois.
The current building, at 7th St. and Capitol Ave. was built in 1868. The building was purchased from Third Presbyterian Church of Springfield in 1876. While President Lincoln never visited the current church building, his wife Mary Todd Lincoln had her funeral here, on July 19, 1882.
The home, located at 427 South 12th Street in Springfield, IL, was built in 1904 after the original home at the same site was razed. Currently, the home stands empty in a state of disrepair, although the last two owners of the property have made efforts to restore it.