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Bethel Baptist Church is an historic church complex and cemetery located in Midlothian, Chesterfield County, Virginia. It was built in 1894, and is a brick church with a steeply pitched gable roof in the Late Gothic Revival style. It is the third church on this site. Wings were added to the original church in 1906, 1980, and 1987. Also on the property is the contributing church cemetery that includes approximately 500 burials including soldiers of virtually every war in American history from the American Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
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Bethel Baptist Church is over 200 years old! It has a glorious heritage of faithful and dedicated Christians who had a vision for a church that would serve the community. In 1799, a group of dedicated Christians who found it too difficult to travel by horse and buggy to their current church, Bethlehem Baptist, began meeting once every two weeks at Shortt’s Stage Tavern on Buckingham Pike, currently Midlothian Turnpike. This group of 56 members constituted their own church on April 23, 1817. While things look different the same dedication and faithfulness continues today!
In 1885, Bethel established a cemetery. It was one of four cemeteries in Chesterfield County and currently contains the graves of veterans from the Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War. A commemorative plaque honoring the cemetery and the soldiers was unveiled at the two hundredth anniversary celebration. Click here to see a listing of the plots.
