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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.
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 ...
Grant Parish is part of the Alexandria, LA Metropolitan Statistical Area and Red River Valley. From 1940 to 1960, the parish had a dramatic population loss, as many African Americans from the plantation areas left in the Great Migration to seek better opportunities in the North and West. Such migration continued until about 1970.
Meachum, ordained by Peck in 1825, founded the First African Baptist Church in 1827. [6] It was then independent of the missionaries. The church, described as a "plain and comfortable brick house for worship", [5] was located at Third and Almond (now Market) Street. It was the first African-American church west of the Mississippi River.
John Berry Meachum (May 3, 1789 – February 26, 1854) was an American pastor, businessman, educator and founder of the First African Baptist Church in St. Louis, the oldest black church west of the Mississippi River. At a time when it was illegal in the city to teach people of color to read and write, Meachum operated a school in the church's ...
The Emmanuel Baptist Church in downtown Alexandria, Louisiana was built in 1950. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 21, 2001. [1] The building was designed by New Orleans architects Favrot & Reed. Jacoby Stained Glass Studios of St. Louis also contributed to the project. [2]
Alexander Memorial Baptist Church is a Baptist congregation located at 10675 Crain Highway in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, US. The congregation was founded in 1908 after a group of members left First Baptist Church in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
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.