3 Results for tag "First Baptist Church"

• On to the Next Phase of the First Baptist Church Archaeology Project

  Learn about our exploratory excavations at the site of the First Baptist Church. Explore our archeological findings, including the 1850s church and more.

• Finding Edmond Parsons

  Have you ever felt that you were being followed?Born into slavery around 1815, Edmond Parsons would have been 200 years old the summer we met — he as the former resident of a 19th-century house on Duke of Gloucester Street, and I as an archaeologist uncovering its chimney. For the …

• What's New at First Baptist?

  The First Baptist Church is the oldest Baptist church founded by Black Americans. Free and enslaved residents secretly created the congregation in 1776. They initially prayed and sang at Green Spring Plantation, outside of Williamsburg, Virginia.It was not until the early nineteenth century that they secured an undesirable, swampy patch …