Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library
Old Saint John’s Baptist Church, Lancaster County’s first independent Black congregation, was formed in 1868 in Kilmarnock and the establishment of a cemetery followed soon after. At its height, the church grew to nearly 1,000 members, serving as a spiritual and cultural anchor for free-born and newly-emancipated Black families. Although the congregation dissolved by 1892, the cemetery continued for generations under the stewardship of daughter churches and is the focus of recent research and pr
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- Category: museum
- Website: http://www.mbwm.org
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- Phone: 804-462-7280 (No linked source recorded for this statement.)
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Old Saint John’s Baptist Church, Lancaster County’s first independent Black congregation, was formed in 1868 in Kilmarnock and the establishment of a cemetery followed soon after. At its height, the church grew to nearly 1,000 members, serving as a spiritual and cultural anchor for free-born and newly-emancipated Black families. Although the congregation dissolved by 1892, the cemetery continued for generations under the stewardship of daughter churches and is the focus of recent research and pr
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