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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Tuesday's Treasures - Goochland

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Springfield Baptist Church . circa 1882

This old church was in the way of developement and slated to be bulldozed until the Henrico County Historical Society saved it. It, along with the next 2 buildings were relocated to the Goochland Fairgrounds and are now part of the Field Day of the Past festival. This looks like a fun festival that I need to attend!

Circa 1930's

Here's a few interesting links with info and pictures of these structures:
Henrico Historical Society Lost Architecture

Field Day

Springfield Baptist Church

Field Day of the Past

Linking up with Tom's Tuesday's Treasures

19 comments:

  1. What a nice little church, love it !

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  2. Cute and pretty buildings. Have a great day!

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  3. Love the look of the two old filling stations. These are all gone now.

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  4. I love that old Shell station. I remember places like that from years and years ago. Love 'looking back'.

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  5. Wonderful church and gas stations! I always enjoy seeing these old historical structures!

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  6. That is a big event with thousands of people seeing how it used to be done. One year they had a neat shingle making machine that was steam powered as I remember.

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  7. In the '60s when I went to college in Georgia I saw many gas stations that were like the Shell station...very southern! Thanks Tanya for sharing your Virginia treasures this week and hurry on back soon.

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  8. You know something? It is really appealing to see these buildings with all that open space around them. Especially love that beautiful church.

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  9. So glad the historical society came along and saved these!

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  10. SO happy someone (or a lovely group) stepped in to save these buildings; they're lovely!

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  11. Well done to that preservation society! The buildings look great & are great for people to see.

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  12. I like the old historical structures! I like the little church the most.

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  13. Very good that someone stepped up and saved them.

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  14. How nice those buildings were saved! I love the gas station!

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  15. So good someone took the initiative to save it and place it where it can be visited and remembered.

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  16. I love all three...so glad they saved and moved them.

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  17. I love all these small and pretty churches, especially the white one's because in Germany isn't any white church. The Historical Society did a good job.

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