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Second Baptist
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513 Market Street

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SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH

This was one of New Richmond’s traditional Black churches.  Built in 1861, the church had a congregation of 125 by 1880.  Howell Boone, a successful African American businessman was a member.  In 1857 Boone was a founder of the Union Association for the Advancement of the Colored Men of New Richmond, a group “desirous of employing all means in our power for the elevation of ourselves and community and race.”  This organization, established before the Civil War, pre-dated the NAACP by more than 50 years.
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