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Big Spring Baptist Church
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Big Spring Baptist Church (Elliston, Virginia) is located in Virginia
Big Spring Baptist Church (Elliston, Virginia)
Location in Virginia
Big Spring Baptist Church (Elliston, Virginia) is located in the United States
Big Spring Baptist Church (Elliston, Virginia)
Location in the United States
Location VA 631, 0.1 mi. E of US 460/11, Elliston, Virginia
Area 4 acres (1.6 ha)
Built c. 1880 (1880)
Built by Pepper, Joseph
Architectural style Nave plan
MPS Montgomery County MPS
NRHP reference No. 89001809
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Added to NRHP November 13, 1989

Big Spring Baptist Church, also known as First Baptist Church, is a historic Baptist church building located near Elliston, Montgomery County, Virginia. It was built about 1880, and is a one-story, four-bay, nave plan frame structure with a high gable roof. It features a projecting three-stage central tower. Also on the property is the contributing church cemetery where the deceased members of most of the area's African-American families are buried.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

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