Site of First Church

Geneseo's first church building occupied this site, facing the Village Square, from 1818 until 1884. This Presbyterian Church, known as "The White Church", contained in its tower a four-sided town clock, also a good bell, paid for in wool by ...

Site of First Church in Norton

Site of First Church in Norton

Built 1710

This post ordered by the town in 1889

Marker is at the intersection of West Main Street (Massachusetts Route 123) and Taunton Ave (U.S. 140), in the median on West Main Street.

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Site of Original First Congregational Church Meetinghouse

Site of Original First Congregational Church Meetinghouse

1740-1775

Congregation founded 1739

Marker is at the intersection of North Granby Road and Salmon Brook Street (U.S. 202), on the right when traveling north on North Granby Road.

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Site of First Church in City of Friona

The city of Friona was founded in 1906 by George G. Wright Land Co., of Kansas City, an agency employed by the XIT Ranch owners to sell their range lands in small tracts. Religious-minded settlers in 1908 organized the Union ...

Site of First Baptist Church

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century, two black preachers, first Moses, then Gowan Pamphlet, began holding religious services out of doors for free blacks and slaves in the Williamsburg area. Although identified as an organized Baptist church by ...

Site of First Church Building in Cuthbert, Georgia

The first church building in Cuthbert was erected on this site in 1839. Deacons Stephen Lundy and Allen Moye bought this lot from Jane Reynolds in 1837. The congregation of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, constituted in 1831, moved from their ...

Site of Dover's First Methodist Church

In 1778, a Methodist Society was organized in Dover by Reverend Freeborn Garrettson. Desiring a permanent place of worship, members acquired a one-half acre lot at this location from Vincent Loockerman in 1782. Future Delaware Governor Richard Bassett contributed toward ...

Site of the First Methodist Church

In Charleston

1785

Established in 1785 under the leadership

of Bishop Francis Asbury, the first Methodist

Society in Charleston purchased a lot in

Cumberland Street and erected a church

here in 1786. Long known as the Blue Meeting

House because of its color and to distinguish

it ...

Site of First Baptist Church / Baptist Seminary

Site of First Baptist Church

In 1825, Wm. Bullein Johnson opened a subscription for a Baptist meetinghouse, which was soon built here. The 120 foot-square lot, which extended well into present McBee Ave., was given by Vardry McBee. After its ...

Site of Milford's First Methodist Church

The beginning of Methodism in this community

can be traced to the organization of a local

“society” in 1777. Early meetings were held

in the homes of its members. On December 3, 1787,

Joseph Oliver conveyed a lot of ground ...