Phillippi Missionary Baptist Church

Phillippi Missionary Baptist Church is a Tennessee historical marker in Carter County.

Carter Co., 200 Horace Leftwich Baptist Church lane in Elizabethton

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In 1867, the Rev. Horace Leftwich, a former slave, founded the Elizabethton Colored Baptism Church. The next year, it was one of the five original churches that established the Watauga Baptist Association. In 1869, after joining the Bethel District Association, members changed the church's name to Phillippi Courthouse on 'Cat Island.' After building a new facility in 1907, congregants moved in the rededicated the church building the next year. In addition to Leftwich, between 1867 and 1940 the Revs. William Jobe, George H. Phillips, and W. A. C. Breedlove, early prominent ministers, served the congregation.

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1846 · Virginia (H. S. Tanner, 1846) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1847 · Virginia (H. S. Tanner, 1847) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1891 · Roan Mountain, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1895 · Gen. map VII. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Phillippi Missionary Baptist Church

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