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Fork Union Baptist Church GA39 |
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 Picture courtesy of John Musgrove
 Picture Courtesy of John Musgrove
Fort Union Baptist Church was constituted in 1798. Presbyterian, Episcopal, Methodist, and Baptist congregations shared as a place of worship the current church, built in 1824 and first known as the Brick Meetinghouse. Gen. Jo9hn Hartwell Cocke, a local plantation owner who assisted Thomas Jefferson in establishing the University of Virginia, was its architect. It is the oldest Church building in Fluvanna County in continuous use for that purpose. In 1898, ten of its members became the original guarantors of Fort Union Military Academy. The church sanctuary was the site of the first and subsequent academy graduations until 1937.
Department of Historic Resources 1999
US 15 (southbound) across the street to the Fork Union Military Academy. Fluvanna County Virginia.
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