Woodlawn Baptist Church and Cemetery, also known as Woodlawn Missionary Baptist Church, is an U.S. historic location in Nutbush, Haywood County, Tennessee. It is on Woodlawn Road, south of Tennessee State Route 19.
For its historical significance, Woodlawn Baptist Church and Cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
Woodlawn Baptist Church was a family church of singer Tina Turner.
The church was established in 1866 ...
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Woodlawn Baptist Church and Cemetery, also known as Woodlawn Missionary Baptist Church, is an U.S. historic location in Nutbush, Haywood County, Tennessee. It is on Woodlawn Road, south of Tennessee State Route 19.
For its historical significance, Woodlawn Baptist Church and Cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
Woodlawn Baptist Church was a family church of singer Tina Turner.
The church was established in 1866 by freed slaves of the community and members of the white Woodlawn Baptist Church. Most slave congregations were ministered by white pastors but in 1846, the young slave Hardin Smith of Virginia was allowed to preach to a slave congregation at the white Woodlawn Church, then located near Woodlawn Road, establishing the first area congregation pastored by a slave.
Hardin Smith was secretly taught to read and write through the Bible by his owner's wife. He in turn secretly taught the community of slaves to read and write. Following slavery,...
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