New York Post

Remnants of black church uncovered in Colonial Williamsburg

Reginald F. Davis, from left, pastor of First Baptist Church in Williamsburg, Connie Matthews Harshaw, a member of First Baptist, and Jack Gary, Colonial Williamsburg's director of archaeology, stand ...
CNN

Colonial Williamsburg tells the story of early American settlers. But in 1956 it paved over Black history to make a parking lot

Beneath the asphalt parking lot of America’s largest living history museum, gravesites linked to one of the nation’s oldest Black churches remained hidden for decades until last year. Archaeologists ...
Daily Press

Archaeologists in Colonial Williamsburg uncover foundations of historic First Baptist Church, one of America’s oldest churches founded by free and enslaved Blacks

It was a hot and sunny fall afternoon Monday when Connie Matthews Harshaw visited the Colonial Williamsburg archaeology site. Harshaw had already been to the site, near the intersection of Nassau and ...
Daily Press

Historic Ware Church is a colonial gem

When the well-to-do congregation of Ware Parish began planning a new and much bigger church during the early 1700s, they did so with no small ambition. What the vestry designed – with the help of a ...
WRIC

Colonial Williamsburg’s First Baptist Church to undergo $3 million restoration

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (WRIC) — One of the country’s first Black Baptist churches will undergo archeological discoveries, a reconstruction and live interpretations thanks to a $3 million national grant.
PBS

Remnants of Black church uncovered in Colonial Williamsburg

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — The brick foundation of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches has been unearthed at Colonial Williamsburg, a living history museum in Virginia that continues to reckon ...