Crooked Run Baptist Church

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Crooked Run Baptist Church was organized in 1772 and is named for the stream that flows nearby. James Garnett Sr., one of the early pastors, served the congregation from 1774 until close to his death in 1830. Another member, Thomas Ammon, became a minister and was imprisoned in the Culpeper jail for preaching in the late 1700s. The first meeting of the Orange Baptist Association occurred here in 1789. At first the members met in a meetinghouse, but by 1856 they had built a brick structure. This church was destroyed by a fire in 1910 and rebuilt that same year using the remains of the brick walls.

Department of Historic Resources, 2000

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

William Spotswood Burwell and Elizabeth Valentine Garnett, “History of Crooked Run Baptist Church,” in Arthur Dicken Thomas and Angus McDonald Green, Early Churches of Culpeper County, Virginia: Colonial and Ante-Bellum Congregations (Culpeper, Va.: Culpeper Historical Society, 1987), 29-43; Leo Taylor Crismon, “Virginia Baptist Ministers Who Migrated to Kentucky before 1800,” Virginia Baptist Register 16 (1977), 758-59; Robert B. Semple, A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia (Richmond, Va.: Pitt and Dickinson, 1894), 184, 233; James Barnett Taylor, Lives of Virginia Baptists Ministers (Richmond: Yale & Wyatt, 1838), 161-164.