Some thirty years after the colonists landed at Jamestown the earliest Church of England on the Middle Peninsula, Piankatank Church, was built in the area
On Sunday, October 25 at 4 PM the MIddlesex County Museum and Historical Society will sponsor a zoom lecture on the Great Awakening and Middlesex County. The Great Awakening was a mid-18th century
Infant christenings originate from the Jewish bris (circumcision) and zerved habat riuals, in which children are named and dedicated to God. The Christian church adopted
“Lower United Methodist Church is steeped in history: It began its life in 1650 as the “Lower Chapel” for the Protestant Episcopal Church of England.
Antioch Baptist Church, in Saluda’s Historic District, is the oldest documented African-American church in Middlesex County. It was founded in 1866 by colored members of Clark’s
By Larry Chowning Holland Powell was born a slave in 1854 in the Amburg area of Middlesex County. As a slave boy, he worked on
