Bethel Baptist Church
Posted by: 
Taluss
N 37° 30.582 W 077° 42.655
18S E 260389 N 4154870
Bethel Baptist Church in Midlothian, Virginia
Waymark Code: WM4RRQ
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 09/24/2008
Views: 24
Bethel Baptist Church
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.
Marker Number: O-50
Marker Title: Bethel Baptist Church
Marker Location: Huguenot Springs Road near Rt 60 in Chesterfield County, Virginia
County or Independent City: Chesterfield County
Web Site: [Web Link]
Marker Program Sponsor: Department of Historic Resources 1991
|