Graves Of Colonial Virginia’s Oldest Black Churches Excavated

By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated July 25, 2022

In 1776, both free and enslaved Blacks joined together and formed the First Baptist Church in Williamsburg, VA. When a tornado damaged the original church in 1834, it was re-built and the second building lasted for more than a century, until it was turned into a parking lot for Colonial Williamsburg, a living museum, in 1956.

Last week, archeologists began excavating graves at the

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