History: Shiloh Baptist Church (Old Site), Fredericksburg, Virginia

Click here to hear excerpts from a traditional spiritual sung as a choir processional during the 11:00 a.m. service on September 3, 2006: "Children of God,

keep on marchin',

for one of these days,

we shall be free..."

(MP3 format)

Featured voices are the Senior Choir and Men's Choir of Shiloh Baptist Church (Old Site), with the Rev. Ronald Cooper singing the lead

History of Shiloh Baptist Church (Old Site)

SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH (OLD SITE) of Fredericksburg, Virginia, has long celebrated 1854 as the date of its functional beginnings as a separate congregation. In fact, however, its history and roots go back even further.

To learn more about our church's history, click on one of the links below. (We hope to have additional links available in the future.)

Historical time line of the church's history (overview)

Early history (1803 through 1878)

Members of our church in the 1854-1856 time period

Newspaper article about John Washington, a member of this church in 1854, who wrote a memoir of his escape from slavery in Fredericksburg

Article by a National Park Service historian the 1862 escape to freedom by John Washington and other Fredericksburg slaves

Memorial Day speech at Fredericksburg National Cemetery by Rev. Lawrence A. Davies in 2006, remembering Shiloh Old Site's connections with the cemetery in the decades immediately after the Civil War

Middle history (1878 through 1962)

A personal remembrance of Shiloh Old Site from 1921 through 1946, written in 2004 by Mrs. Jeane W. Winston, a former resident of Fredericksburg

(We hope to add more historical information on this period later)

Recent history (1962 through the present)

From Civil Wrongs to Civil Rights (an article documenting the activist role of our pastor, the Rev. Lawrence A. Davies, in the city of Fredericksburg during the years 1962-1996)

(We hope to add historical information on this period later)

This page last updated on 10/25/2007

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