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Georgetown is located in the northeast corner of Grant Parish at (31.764210, -92.382340). [4] U.S. Route 165 runs through the village, leading northeast 31 miles (50 km) to Columbia and south 33 miles (53 km) to Alexandria.
About 4 miles west of Georgetown off U.S. Route 460: Georgetown: 50: Main Street Commercial District: Main Street Commercial District: February 24, 1975 : Both sides of E. Main St. from Mulberry to Broadway, southern side from Elley Alley to Broadway
The First Baptist Church congregation in Georgetown, Kentucky was organized in 1811, and its first meeting house erected on West Jefferson Street in 1815. In 1842 Howard Malcom, the pastor of the church and president of Georgetown College, urged the relocation of the church to a site near the college. The congregation moved from their West ...
W. T. McCain (1913-1993) - State representative for Grant Parish 1940 to 1948; first state court judge for only Grant Parish (1976), lawyer in Colfax; W.L. Rambo, member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from Georgetown. Richard S. Thompson (1916-1997), state representative from Grant Parish from 1972 to 1984
The St. Mary Baptist Church in Port Barre, Louisiana, was the first in a series of three African-American churches, over 100 years old, that burned to the ground on March 26, 2019. On April 2, 2019, a second church, Greater Union Baptist Church in Opelousas, Louisiana, was set on fire. The third church, Mount Pleasant Baptist Church also in ...
This was part of Georgetown's effort at the time to secure federal funding for model projects that could be replicated at other universities and institutions across the nation. [6] Construction began in early 1980 and the building itself was completed in May 1982 at a cost of $23,000,000. [2]
First Baptist Church in Oak Grove is one of the larger congregations in West Carroll Parish, located across from Oak Grove City Hall; pastor Randy J. Messer (since 1993) West Carroll Parish (French: Paroisse de Carroll Ouest) is a parish located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
William Screven (c. 1629 – 1713) was a 17th-century Reformed Baptist church planter and preacher from England who founded the first Baptist church in the South. William Augustine Screven was born in the town of Somerton in Somerset, England in 1629, and emigrated to New England in the 1640s. [ 1 ]