Gillfield Baptist Church is the second-oldest black Baptist congregation in Petersburg, Virginia and one of the oldest in the nation. It has the oldest handwritten record book of any black church. It
Gillfield Baptist Church, Petersburg
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Pocahontas Island is a peninsula in Petersburg, Virginia, once on the opposite side of the Appomattox River from Petersburg. Since 1915 a new channel for the river separated it from Chesterfield Count
Gillfield Baptist Church (Petersburg, Virginia)
…separate institution with an integrated congregation which also included slave and free members. In 1800, the black majority of Davenport Church moved to Pocahontas Island, the center of the growing free black community of Petersburg. It took the name of Sandy Beach Baptist Church. In 1818, the church members purchased a…
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