Springfield Baptist Church (Greensboro, Georgia) Explained

Springfield Baptist Church
Coordinates:33.5775°N -83.1781°W
Architecture:Late Gothic Revival
Added:September 9, 1987
Area:1acres
Mpsub:Greensboro MRA
Refnum:87001451

The Springfield Baptist Church, on Canaan Circle in Greensboro, Georgia, was built in 1907. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

It has rectangular towers at its front two corners.[1]

It is a primarily black church formed as an 1864 split off the First Baptist Church of Greensboro, which continued as a whites-only church, after the American Civil War. It was the first black Baptist church in Greensboro.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=87001451}} Historic Resources of Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia: Springfield Baptist Church ]. National Park Service. June 19, 2018. With