The Lancaster Virginia Historical Society will co-host a Black history presentation, “Old Saint John’s Baptist Church and Cemetery: Revisiting a Community’s Legacy of Faith” Saturday, February 7, at the Lancaster Community Library, 16 Town Centre Drive, Kilmarnock. Doors will open at 12:30 p.m. and the program will follow at 1 p.m.
Speakers will include members of the Old Saint John’s Baptist Church Cemetery Project Committee and churches served by the cemetery. Supporters also include the Interracial Conversations of the Northern Neck, Historic Christ Church & Museum, Kilmarnock Museum, Northern Neck Hidden History Trail, Middle Peninsula African-American Genealogical & Historical Society, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Kilmarnock Branch and the Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
