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A history of Caroline county, Virginia

from its formation in 1727 to 1924
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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PROVIDENCE CHURCH
 
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PROVIDENCE CHURCH

Providence Baptist church which is located four miles east
of the county seat of Caroline was founded in 1837. The late
Dr. George W. Beale in his Historical Sermon before the Baptist
General Association in 1898 said: "The earliest Sunday school
of which we have any knowledge in Virginia was gathered where
Providence church in Caroline later built its meeting house."