Virginia HR 572: Commending Third Baptist Church.

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2018 SPECIAL SESSION I

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18200103D 

HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 572 

Offered April 17, 2018 

Commending Third Baptist Church. 

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Patron-- Levine 

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WHEREAS, Third Baptist Church in Alexandria received a 
historical marker from the Department of Historic Resources in 2018; and 

WHEREAS, Third Baptist Church traces its roots to the Civil 
War, when Alexandria, occupied by Union troops in 1861, attracted many African 
Americans escaping slavery; and

WHEREAS, a small consecrated group of former slaves who had 
settled near the Potomac Riverfront in Alexandria began a chain of prayer 
meetings in their newly built log cabins, for which they had cut timbers to 
erect; with numbers increasing, the group realized they needed a much larger 
and more public gathering place for prayer and worship; in January 1864, the 
group of former slaves organized the Third Freedmen�s Baptist Church, later 
called the Third Baptist Church; and

WHEREAS, the first minister of Third Baptist Church was the 
Reverend George Washington Parker (ca. 1832 - 1873), who had been free before 
the Civil War and who had worked with the Reverend Clement Robinson to start 
the First Select Colored School in Alexandria in 1862; and 

WHEREAS, Reverend Parker set out on a missionary journey to 
Philadelphia where he also secured financial assistance for Third Baptist 
Church from the American Baptist Missionary Society; upon Reverend Parker�s 
return to Alexandria, a group of former slaves purchased an old frame structure 
at Princess and North Patrick Streets; and

WHEREAS, this old frame building was blown from its foundation 
and was rebuilt with a brick structure by the congregation of Third Baptist 
Church in 1865; and

WHEREAS, in 1870, Third Baptist Church�s Reverend Parker, a 
local Republican Party leader, was the first African American member to be 
elected to the Alexandria Common Council; and

WHEREAS, Third Baptist Church built its current Romanesque 
Revival sanctuary in the 1890s; and

WHEREAS, Third Baptist Church has continued to serve the 
spiritual needs of the community for more than 150 years; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, That Third Baptist Church 
hereby be commended on receiving a historical marker from the Department of 
Historic Resources; and, be it 

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates 
prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to Third Baptist Church as 
an expression of the House of Delegates� admiration for its storied history and 
its contributions to Alexandria�s African American community.