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Historical Highway MarkersHunting Quarter Baptist ChurchUO-8
Hunting Quarter Baptist Church originated ca. 1863 when local African Americans began holding worship services under a nearby brush arbor, according to oral history. White neighbors donated a two-room sanctuary that stood 200 feet northeast of here and burned in 1865. The congregation built a frame sanctuary here in 1879 and later overlaid it with brick. During the segregation era, the church supported Hunting Quarter School for African American children. Buried in the cemetery is longtime pastor Frank L. Mason, Republican candidate for U.S. Congress from Virginia's 4th district in 1920. Also interred here are veterans of World Wars I and II.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: Baltimore Afro-American, 22 Oct. 1920. Death certificate, Frank L. Mason, 27 June 1923. Gary M. Williams, Sussex County, Virginia: A Heritage Recalled by the Land (Petersburg: Dietz Press, 2012), 173-174. Interview with Dr. Ethel Poarch (former church secretary) and review of church documents in her possession, 30 July 2015 Norfolk Journal and Guide, 7 July 1923. Petersburg Index-Appeal, 3 Nov. 1920. Sussex County Deed Book 2:33. Sussex County: A Tale of Three Centuries (WPA, 1942), 133, 160-161. |