From left, Reginald F. Davis, pastor of First Baptist Church, Connie Matthews Harshaw, a member of First Baptist and Jack Gary, Colonial Williamsburg’s director of archaeology, stand at the foundation of one the oldest Black churches in the U.S. in 2021, in Williamsburg.
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Williamsburg begins rebuilding one of the nation’s oldest Black churches
The rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered outdoors in secret before constructing a wooden meetinghouse in Virginia, started Thursday, June 19, with a ceremonial groundbreaking.
