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Springfield Baptist
Church
114 12th Street at the corner of Reynolds.
Tours by appointment. (706-724-1056) Springfield Baptist Church, founded in 1787, is
believed to be the oldest independent African-American church on its original site in the
United States. Behind the main brick structure is a white clapboard building, constructed
in 1801 for St. John United Methodist Church, which was purchased by Springfield in 1844.
The building was moved to its current site, although it was turned on the lot when the
brick edifice was constructed beginning in 1897. This is the city's oldest surviving
church structure. Here Morehouse College and the Georgia Equal Rights Association were
founded after the Civil War. (NR)