Each farm had an orchard with apple trees and pear trees. Ben recalled, “many kinds of berries growing on the stony pastures and along the stone fences … blueberries and blackberries as big as plums ...

News highlights from June 1925 include school graduations, ship accidents, summer picnics, local businesses and community ...

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A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

Second Baptist Church is also one of 24 churches in the Ecumenical Assembly of Bartholomew County Churches, according to Pastor Larry Rowe. However, the church’s congregation saw a decline as a ...

Sitting on a hill where the counties of Anderson and Shelby meet, with a well-kept cemetery serving as the final resting ...

Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church, 1204 St. Joseph St., Baton Rouge, will hold its Family and Friends Day service at 10 a.m. Sunday.

Ground had been broken in Virginia for the rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches. Thursday's Juneteenth ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — 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 ...

Casket-shaped stones mark the 62 graves identified at the original site of the First Baptist Church of Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Va., on May 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed) ...

As Walnut Creek Baptist Church marks 175 years of ministry, the congregation reflects on decades of worship and community.

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — 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… ...