Providence Church

Providence Church, ca. 1747, was among the earliest Presbyterian churches built in Virginia. Its first minister was Samuel Davies, the eloquent New Side preacher who led the Hanover Presbytery and later became president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). John Todd, pastor from 1752 to 1793, established a classical school at his nearby house and was an original trustee of Hampden-Sydney College. George Whitefield, the evangelical itinerant who helped spark the Great Awakening, preached here in 1755. Providence is one of the few remaining wood-frame colonial churches in Virginia.