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COLUMBIA BAPTIST CHURCH
In 1859, the church trustees bought this 1/2 acre (part of 1729 248-acre Trammell Grant) for $100. The 2-story clapboard over timber church served as a Union hospital and appears in Matthew Brady photos. Pastor John Read was shot by Mosby troops as Union spy. When congregation became inactive, church was site of 1875 first town council meeting and first public school, Jefferson Institute, 1875 to 1882. Church was reorganized in 1880 and relocated in 1909 to West Columbia St. Church here was demolished and replaced by Episcopalian Parish Hall in 1920.
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