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Baptist Churches in Culpeper and surrounding area

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Re: Baptist Churches in Culpeper and surrounding area

deborahlewis1  (View posts) Posted: 28 Jun 2009 10:04PM GMT
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Here are some sources:

Early Churches of Culpeper County, Virginia: Colonial and Ante-Bellum Congregations. Ed. by Arthur Dickens Thomas, Jr., Ph.D. and Angus McDonald Green. The Culpeper Historical Society, Culpeper, VA, c 1987. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 90-61267.

Contains brief history of early churches in Culpeper plus history of each church established before the Civil War. Many of the histories were written by an individual from that church. Sources and credits vary by history.


Culpeper A Virginia County’s History Through 1920. Eugene M. Scheel. The Culpeper Historical Society, Culpeper, VA, 1982. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 82-83469

Contains 2 chapters about religious history. The first one is about Culpeper churches during the Great Awakening. It also covers the shift from the state-established Anglican church to freedom of religion in Virginia. The second chapter covers religion during the Civil War.



Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper. Compiled by Raleigh Travers. Originally published 1900. Reprinted Southern Book Co. 1958. Reprinted Regional Publishing Co 1964. Reprinted Quality Printing Co. Orange, VA 1989. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 64-19758.
This is “… a Revised and Enlarged Edition o Dr. Philip Slaughter’s History of St Mark’s Parish”. St. Mark’s was one of the original, if not the original, Anglican parish in Culpeper. There are several chapters on the history of the parish.

Also, check the Library of Virginia at http://www.lva.virginia.gov/

What churches are you speciically looking for and what time periods?

D M Lewis

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