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Big Spring Baptist Church (Elliston, Virginia)

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Built
  
c. 1880 (1880)

Architectural style
  
Nave plan

NRHP Reference #
  
89001809

Area
  
2 ha

Built by
  
Pepper, Joseph

MPS
  
Montgomery County MPS

Address
  
Elliston, VA 24087, USA

Added to NRHP
  
13 November 1989

Big Spring Baptist Church (Elliston, Virginia)

Location
  
VA 631, 0.1 mi. E of US 460/11, Elliston, Virginia

Similar
  
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Big Spring Baptist Church, also known as First Baptist Church, is a historic Baptist church building located near Elliston, Montgomery County, Virginia. It was built about 1880, and is a one-story, four-bay, nave plan frame structure with a high gable roof. It features a projecting three-stage central tower. Also on the property is the contributing church cemetery where the deceased members of most of the area's African-American families are buried.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

References

Big Spring Baptist Church (Elliston, Virginia) Wikipedia