Third Baptist Church

Third Baptist Church (HM2LIE)

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N 38° 48.537', W 77° 2.956'

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Alexandria, occupied by Union troops in 1861, attracted many African Americans escaping slavery. In Jan. 1864, a group of formerly enslaved people organized Third Freedmen's Baptist Church (later Third Baptist Church). The congregation moved to this site in 1865 and built its Romanesque Revival sanctuary in the 1890s. The church's first minister was the Rev. George Washington Parker (ca. 1832-1873), who had been free before the Civil War. He worked with the Rev. Clement Robinson to start the First Select Colored School in 1862, was a local Republican Party leader during Reconstruction and was the first African American member of the Alexandria Common Council.
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HM NumberHM2LIE
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Year Placed2018
Placed ByDepartment of Historic Resources
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Date Added Saturday, October 5th, 2019 at 2:02pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)18S E 322065 N 4297570
Decimal Degrees38.80895000, -77.04926667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 38° 48.537', W 77° 2.956'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds38° 48' 32.22" N, 77° 2' 57.36" W
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