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Trinity Baptist Church may refer to: Trinity Baptist Church (Concord, New Hampshire) Trinity Baptist Church in Marion, Ohio, located in the former Marion Public Library;
The history of Petersburg, Virginia, United States as a modern settlement begins in the 17th century when it was first settled.The city was incorporated in 1748. It was occupied by the British during the American Revolutionary War, and Major-General William Phillips died of fever at Blandford (later a neighborhood of Petersburg) during bombardment from the Marquis de Lafayette's positions ...
Burial ground for 30,000 Confederates killed in the siege of Petersburg (1864-1865); one of several sites claiming to have celebrated the first Memorial Day ceremony, in 1866, in the United States 5: Blandford Church: Blandford Church
First Baptist Church (est. 1774) was the first Baptist church in Petersburg, Virginia; [1] one of the first African-American Baptist congregations in the United States, and one of the oldest black churches in the nation. [2] It established one of the first local schools for black children in the nation.
Notable buildings include the Fauquier Heritage and Preservation Foundation building (c. 1771), hosteller's house for Rector's Ordinary (c. 1800), a store and Confederate post office (c. 1805), the Elgin House (c. 1820, 1892), former Marshall Pharmacy (c. 1830), the Foley Building (c. 1830), the Gothic Revival style Trinity Episcopal Church ...
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[12] [13] These black churches were the first Baptist churches established in Petersburg. [7] The Gillfield Baptist Church obtained title to its land in 1818 and in 1859 completed a $7000 brick structure; the Petersburg African Baptist Church also owned its own sanctuary and the community also organized burial and other benevolent societies. [14]