Historical Highway Markers

Morattico Baptist Church

JX-5

On the hill is Morattico church, organized in 1778, the mother Baptist Church of the Northern Neck. The present building was erected in 1856. Lewis Lunsford, first pastor, is buried here.

Conservation & Development Commission, 1937

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