The First Baptist Church is a historic church at 727 Scotland Road in
Williamsburg, Virginia. It is a brick Colonial Revival structure, built in 1956 to a design by
Norfolk architect Bernard Spigel. It is of only two known church designs by Spigel.
History
The congregation was founded in the 1770s as a non-denominational group of free and enslaved African-Americans, and became officially Baptist in 1781. Located for many years in a church on Nassau Street, it was relocated by the
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation to its present location at the foundation's expense.
The building was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
[
]John M. Dawson
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was a pastor for over forty-five years and was also a Virginia state senator between 1874 and 1877 during the Reconstruction Era
The Reconstruction era was a period in American history following the American Civil War (1861–1865) and lasting until approximately the Compromise of 1877. During Reconstruction, attempts were made to rebuild the country after the bloo ...
.
See also
* National Register of Historic Places in Williamsburg, Virginia
References
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Williamsburg, Virginia
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