Buried History: First Baptist Church

What do you know about America's buried history?

For centuries, the roles that African Americans played in shaping the U.S. have been buried. And when it comes to telling the full history of our country, their significance is often dismissed. In historic Williamsburg, Virginia, with the dramatic discovery of the First Baptist Church’s foundation and evidence of a burial site, archaeologists are unearthing an untold story.

The First Baptist Church of Williamsburg is one of the country’s first African American Churches – founded in secret by free and enslaved Black worshippers in 1776, but until recently, the original structure has been hidden under a parking lot in Colonial Williamsburg.

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