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Bethel Baptist Church O50 |
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 Picture Courtesy of Chris Dilworth
 Picture Courtesy of John Musgrove
 Picture Courtesy of John Musgrove
In 1799 the local Baptist Society acquired this land and soon built a meetinghouse. The Bethel congregation worshipped in the meetinghouse and was constituted as a church in 1817. About 1820 the members built a brick church here - - the first in Chesterfield County. The present sanctuary, which replaced it in 1894, was then the most elaborate rural church in the county, having Gothic butresses, fine exterior detailing, and a rib-vaulted chancel. In the churchyard are buried soldiers of virtually every war from the Revolution through Vietnam.
Department of Historic Resources 1991.
Huguenot Springs Road at Route 60 Chesterfield County Virginia
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