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Bethel Baptist Church
Huguenot Springs Rd,
VA ,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
37° 30' 35.061156",
-77° 42' 38.929392"
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Virginia State
Historical Marker
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In 1799 the local Baptist Society acquired this land and soon built a meetinghouse. The Bethel congregation worshiped in the meetinghouse and was constituted as a church in 1817. About 1820 the members built a brick church here--the first in Chesterfield County. The present sanctuary, which replaced it in 1894, was then the most elaborate rural church in the county, having Gothic buttresses, fine exterior detailing, and a rib-vaulted chancel. In the churchyard are buried soldiers of virtually every war from The Revolution through Vietnam.
Last updated: 2/14/2015 15:17:00 |
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Related Themes: American Revolution, the Revolutionary War.
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Bethel Baptist Church Virginia Map
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