By 1818, The First Baptist Church had its first building in the former colonial capital. The 16-foot by 20-foot structure was destroyed by a tornado in 1834.

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — The rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered ...

Colonial Williamsburg had paid for the property where the church had sat until the mid-1950s, and covered the costs of First Baptist building a new church. But the museum failed to tell its story ...

First Baptist Church was founded in 1776 by free and enslaved Black people in Williamsburg, Virginia’s colonial capital. Members secretly gathered under trees at a plantation to engage in song ...

The first phase of excavation has ended for a Colonial Williamsburg archaeology project aiming to help tell the story of Williamsburg’s First Baptist Church, one of America’s oldest chu… ...

Colonial Williamsburg had paid for the property where the church had sat until the mid-1950s, and covered the costs of First Baptist building a new church. But the museum failed to tell its story ...

For Colonial Williamsburg’s Director of Archaeology Jack Gary, it was a good sign that the team had uncovered First Baptist Church’s first permanent church structure dating back to the early ...

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation first began archaeological work on the First Baptist Church project in 2020. In the last three years, archaeologists have located the church’s original ...

Archaeologists in Colonial Williamsburg uncovered the foundations of First Baptist Church, founded in 1776 by free and enslaved Blacks. Using ground-penetrating radar, they found 62 historic ...

Colonial Hills Baptist, the church whose bus was involved in a deadly crash in July, is holding a Community Appreciation service Sunday morning. The event starts at 10:45 and will last until noon.

Colonial Williamsburg had paid for the property where the church had sat until the mid-1950s, and covered the costs of First Baptist building a new church. But the museum failed to tell its story ...