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A little church nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains will celebrate its 210th anniversary on Sunday. The F. T. Baptist Church, located on Rt. 707 about one mile east of Rt. 231, will hold a Homecoming service at 11 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 18.
The church was founded in 1778, and according to the church records, the first meetings were held in the open, on the banks of the Hughes River, under a grove of beech trees near Sharp Rock, upstream of Peola Mills.
It was not until 1792 that 3/4 of an acre was donated to the Ragged Mountain Baptist Society by William and Judith Bradley “for no purpose except to build a meeting house on and to attend there a Divine service." There is no record of whether a meeting house was actually built.
What is recorded, however, in the minutes of the Culpeper Association (now known as the Shiloh Baptist Association) is that in 1802 the church was referred to as “Ragged Mountain,” and in the minutes of the association’s 1804 meeting the name had been changed to “F. T. Baptist Church.” The church’s representatives to the association’s meeting, which was held at Thornton’s Gap, were Elder Conner, Thomas Wright, James Ward, and John Dod
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