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The First Baptist Church

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Fincastle 193


The First Baptist Church was Botetourt County's first black church. Reverend Absalom C. Dempsey, the minister of the white Baptist congregation organized the First African Baptist Church sometime around 1831. The original frame building burned and the current church was built in 1866.

 


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