Spice Valley Baptist Church Traditional Cache
Spice Valley Baptist Church
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This cache will bring you to the Spice Valley Baptist Church, the oldest (longest meeting) church in Lawrence County if not a greater area. The cache should be obvious for experienced cachers.
About 100 yards south, up the hill from the cache site on Clark Smith Road is the site of the original church. A few gravestones and a monument are there today.
Also, near the cache is a benchmark, for those interested.
A brief history of the Spice Valley Baptist Church:
“Spice Valley Baptist church was formed June 1, 1822, with Abram Mitchell as first pastor, under whose ministry the first log church was built. In 1842 a great revival occurred and many were added to the church, seventy-five being immersed at one-time. The first church was made from round poles and it had a stick-and-dirt chimney at one end. It was built in 1827 and was very low to the ceiling. A stove was first put into it in 1832. The house was burned about 1835, when it was being used as a school room. In 1837 a brick church was erected.” --A History of Lawrence and Monroe Counties, Indiana by B.F. Bowen & Co.
“[The brick] building was used for about 50 years starting in 1837. Church members hauled rocks for the foundation. It was plastered in 1843, with the plasterer being paid in bacon, corn and wheat — items that the rural church members would have, even if they had no cash money. Seats were added the same year, with the members making the seats themselves. Church member Hugh Fulton furnished most of the lumber for the seating.
That building also fell victim to a fire on Jan. 18, 1887.
The site of the church was moved a couple of hundred yards to the north, and a new brick structure was dedicated in May 1888. This building is still in use today as the sanctuary, with the addition of a classroom wing and basement fellowship area. “ -- “187 years and counting” by Jeff Routh, Times-Mail
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