Tates Creek Baptist Church
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Tates Creek Baptist Church | |
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| Nearest city | Richmond, Kentucky |
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| Coordinates | 37°50′49″N 84°19′6″W / 37.84694°N 84.31833°W |
| Area | 2.1 acres (0.85 ha) |
| Built | 1851 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| MPS | Madison County MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 88003333[1] |
| Added to NRHP | February 8, 1989 |
The Tates Creek Baptist Church is a Baptist church organized in 1783. In May 1775 the first recorded religious service took place in Fort Boonesborough. It met in a stone building around Shallow Ford until it burned down around 1850. The current building was finished in 1851. Several members of the congregation were delegates to a convention held in September 1786 regarding separating Kentucky from Virginia. Tates Creek Baptist Church is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[2] It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.
The founding pastor of the Tates Creek Baptist Church, Andrew Tribble, was a friend of Thomas Jefferson and may have helped shape his political philosophy.
According to church historian Ratliff, Tribble came to Madison County from Virginia and helped found the church between 1783 and 1785, and organized the church in 1786. Tribble was Tates Creek Baptist's pastor until 1819. He died in 1821 and is buried off Colonel Road, south of the church.
A monument to Tribble, placed by the North Carolina–based Baptist Church Preservation Society, highlights the persecution of Tribble and other Baptists suffered in colonial Virginia, when only members of the Anglican clergy were allowed to preach.
In addition to erecting the monument, the preservation society also did restorative work on the stone wall that surrounds Tribble's grave site, said local historian James Neale, a descendant of Tribble.[3][4][5]
