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Cottontown Tennessee

Old Country Church

April 9, 2019 by 12 Comments

old country churchWhen we’re driving along backroads, which happens quite frequently here in Tennessee, I always enjoy snapping photos of old country churches, and whenever I see an old building, it blows my mind to think about the stories that it holds.

The photo to the left is of Station Camp Baptist Church, located in Cottontown, Tennessee (northeast of Nashville). One of the earliest frontier churches in America, Station Camp was established in 1796–the year Tennessee was admitted into the Union and the year John Adams, the second president of the United States, was elected into office.

I love this quote on the church’s website: “Just as the station camp (from which the church got its name) provided settlers and weary travelers a refuge from frontier dangers, Station Camp Baptist Church has provided a refuge for weary souls for over 200 years. May it continue to do so.”

While I have been to a couple churches that can trace their roots back to the 1800s, they have always been in more modern buildings. I thoroughly enjoyed my first experience Pu'uanahulu Baptist Church Hawaiiattending service at an old country church. It happened one year ago, while Mr. Handsome and I were on vacation on the Big Island of Hawaii. …

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Filed Under: Hawaii, Travel, U.S. Tagged With: backroads, baptist church, Big Island of Hawaii, Cottontown Tennessee, Hawaii, King Kamehameha, Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa, Nashville, old country church, Tennessee, volcanoes

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