Hebron Baptist Church served Randol Creek settlement

Saturday, January 5, 2019

Local historians often mention Old Bethel Church, built in 1806 and the first non-Catholic Church in old Louisiana Territory. Less well-known are the Baptist churches that grew from or followed Bethel. These began organizing within 10 years of the building of Bethel, and included Hebron Church. This church stood 4-5 miles northwest of downtown Cape Girardeau, near today's County Park North. Hebron is relatively well-known because its minute book covering 1829-1878 survives in the collection of the State Historical Society of Missouri (C1311).

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