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1728 Essex County Courthouse

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In 1774, Baptists in Tappahannock established the earliest Baptist church in Essex County-Piscataway (now Mt. Zion) Baptist, on Dunbrooke Road. On that same day, inside the local Essex County Courthouse, which is now the oldest courthouse building in Virginia, officials sentenced fines and imprisonments to the three men who preached the church’s opening service – John Waller, John Shackleford, and Read more...
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Meditation Rock / Grave of George Washington’s Mother

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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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John Bunyan Statue

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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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Bunyan Meeting House and Museum

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Situated on Mill Street, the Bunyan Meeting House  and its Bunyan Museum preserve priceless memorabilia of John Bunyan’s life and times. The present Bunyan Meeting was built in 1849-50. copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Practices Read more...
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Oxford Martyrs Memorial

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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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Metropolitan Tabernacle

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Watch Douglas Whitney as Spurgeon:   Metropolitan Tabernacle, where Charles Spurgeon once served, is at the junction of Elephant and Castle Streets (Southwark). copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Practices   Photo By The original uploader was Secretlondon at English Wikipedia. – Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., CC BY-SA 3.0, Read more...
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Tomb of Bishop Lancelot Andrewes

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Inside the nearby Southwark Cathedral is the tomb of Bishop Lancelot Andrewes, a translator of the King James Bible. Be sure to see the John Harvard Chapel. Near the Southwark Cathedral is a full-sized reconstruction of the warship, Golden Hinde, used by Sir Francis Drake when he circumnavigated the world in 1577-80. copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in Read more...
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Mayflower Memorial

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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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Newgate Prison

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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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Ye Olde Yellow Meeting House

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Ye Olde Yellow Meeting House, located on Yellow Meetinghouse Road, off Route 526, dates to about 1737. Its earliest records, beginning in 1766, are in a 165-page handwritten “Church Book: Giving an Account of ye First Settlement & Progress of the Baptists at Crosswicks, or Upper Freehold.”  In 1766, its forty-seven members organized into Crosswicks Baptist Church. In 1773, its Read more...
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Charles Tindley Grave

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Charles Albert Tindley (July 7, 1851 – July 26, 1933) was an American Methodist minister and gospel music composer. His composition “I’ll Overcome Someday”[1] is credited as the basis for the U.S. Civil Rights anthem “We Shall Overcome“.[2] Another of his hymns is “Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There” (1916), as well as “What Are They Doing in Heaven?” (1901). Often referred to as “The Prince Read more...
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Miles Coverdale Grave

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Romans Chap. XVI. Verse XVII. The Holy Bible To the memory of Miles Coverdale who convinced that the pure Word of God ought to be the sole rule of our faith and guide of our practice laboured earnestly for its diffusion and with a view of affording the meaning of reading and hearing in their own tongue the wonderful works Read more...
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York Minister Library

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Miles Coverdale c.1488 – 1569Bishop of Exeter and believed to be a native of York. He translated and published the first complete printed English Bible (1535) and revised the Great Bible of 1539, sponsored by Thomas Cromwell. He was a major figure of the English Reformation and the Authorised Version of the Bible (1611) and the Psalms in the Book Read more...
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Grave of Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf

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Photograph Dr. Bernd Gross   Wikipedia: Nikolaus Ludwig Graf von Zinzendorf and Pottendorf (* 26. May 1700 in Dresden; † 9. May 1760 in Lord’s hat) was a German Lutheran–pietistic self-taught[ 1 ] theologian, Imperial Count, Founder and bishop the Herrnhut brothers ( „ Brothers’ Union “ ) as well as poets of numerous hymns. Read more...
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Clarence W Jones Grave

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From Reach Beyond (HCJB):   One Sunday morning at Lake Harbor, Paul Rader gave a missionary challenge, and at the invitation, Clarence, who had been leading the singing, went forward to give his life for missionary service.  Rader was greatly moved. “God bless him.  We need Clarence Jones here in this work.  But if God wants him in missionary work, Read more...
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