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Historical Highway MarkersFirst Baptist Church (Centralia)S-89
In 1867, the African American members of nearby Salem Baptist Church separated and founded Salem African Baptist Church. The new congregation held worship services under a brush arbor before constructing a building here on a one-acre tract deeded in 1869 by members of the mother church. The congregation soon changed its name to First Baptist Church (Centralia). Early in the 20th century, members erected a large new sanctuary incorporating elements of the Gothic Revival and Colonial Revival styles. Razed by fire in 1996, this structure was rebuilt to original specifications in 1997. In 1963, the growing congregation moved two miles east.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: Chesterfield County Deed Book 51: 584-586. Photographs and notes provided by First Baptist Church (Centralia) History Committee. J. O’Dell, Chesterfield County: Early Architecture and Historic Sites (Chesterfield, VA: 1983), 356. Salem Baptist Church Minutes, Virginia Baptist Historical Society, University of Richmond. William Russell Pankey, History of Salem Baptist Church, Organized 1794, Chesterfield, Virginia (Richmond: 1964), 28-29. |