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Founded by Shubal Stearns, in 1755, Sandy Creek Baptist Church is located at 4765 Sandy Creek Church Road, Liberty. Stearns’s obelisk tombstone stands in the church cemetery. Historical monuments on the grounds provide fascinating glimpses into the Sandy Creek heritage. The year 2005 marked the 250th anniversary of Stearns’s organization of the church. IN 2015, Sandy Creek Baptist erected a new, Read more...
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Marked by a tall obelisk at 1500 Washington Avenue, is the grave of George Washington’s mother. Near the obelisk, an inscription on Meditation Rock says of her, “Here Mary Ball Washington prayed for the safety of her son and country during the dark days of the Revolution.” Mary’s home is at 1200 Charles Street. copyrighted and used by permission from David Read more...
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A bronze statue of Bunyan stands at the north end of High Street. copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Practices Photo By Simon Speed, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2103478 Read more...
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See the Martyrs Memorial, a stone monument, near Balliol College, at the intersection of St. Giles, Magdalen, and Beaumont Streets. The Memorial commemorates Oxford’s Reformer-martyrs, Thomas Cranmer, Nicholas Ridley, and Hugh Latimer. The earlest Baptists were products of the Reformation. copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Practices 5 Minutes in Read more...
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Visit the Mayflower Memorial at the Barbican, from where the Pilgrims, in 1620, departed for the New World. Visit the Mayflower Museum just down the street. copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Practices Photo By RobertBFC at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35423422 Read more...
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In the back of Amen Court, in the shadow of St. Paul’s Cathedral, stands the only surviving wall of Newgate Prison, where many Baptists suffered and died. copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Practices Famous Prisoners according to Wikipedia John Bradford, religious reformer – burned at the stake at Read more...
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Underneath the Roger Williams Statue, at Prospect Terrace, lie Williams’s ashes. With John Clarke, he was the co-founder of Rhode Island. (See Chapter 12). copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Practices Photo by By Rhododendrites – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65213559 Read more...
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At Williams College (Congregational), a twelve-foot-high marble monument, called the Haystack Prayer Meeting Memorial, commemorates “The Birthplace of American Foreign Missions 1806,” out of which came Baptists Adoniram Judson and Luther Rice. See the section, “Haystack Prayer Meeting at Williams College (1806),” in Chapter 17. copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Read more...
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The Leland-Madison Memorial Park, six miles east of Orange, at the intersection of US 20/Constitution Highway and SR 658/Clifton Road, is the place where James Madison met in an oak grove with Baptist-Evangelist John Leland, to discuss the issue of religious freedom of conscience. This meeting led to the Bill of Rights. copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History Read more...
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On the corner of Church and School streets stands a concrete replica of the cider press that produced the gigantic cheese that John Leland gave to President Thomas Jefferson. In Cheshire Cemetery, Leland’s obelisk grave-marker displays a commemorative plaque, See “The Big Cheshire Cheese,” in Chapter 16. copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Read more...