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Oak Grove Baptist Church
Oak Park Rd,
VA ,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
38° 22' 6.430656",
-78° 10' 47.980668"
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Virginia State
Historical Marker
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Joe Thoms, Sr., a slave harness-maker, founded Oak Grove Baptist Church during the Civil War at his nearby log cabin, which burned in 1869. The congregation then met here, on land owned by John J. Robinson, a white farmer, in a grove of oak they called the bush arbor. In 1870, Joe Thoms, with Deacons Ambrose Tolliver, Frank Walker, Ed Redd, John Williams, Charles Brock, Spot Mallory, and Ambrose Thoms, built a small frame church here. The third church replaced it in 1894, when Robinson donated the land. A great-great-grandson of Joe Thoms became pastor in 1982.
Last updated: 2/14/2015 15:17:00 |
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