Scotch Plains Baptist Church, Parsonage and Cemetery
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The Scotch Plains Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church located at Park Avenue in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Scotch Plains Baptist Church, Parsonage, and Cemetery listing on June 14, 2013. The listing includes the nearby Old Baptist Parsonage, previously listed individually in 1973. The present church is located in an American Revolutionary War-era cemetery known as "God’s Little Acre", with Watchung Mountains-quarried brown sandstone grave markers dating back to 1742. The original church dated from the early 18th century. After a fire, it was rebuilt around 1816. The present church was built in 1871 in a Gingerbread Ruskinian Gothic style “made of pressed brick with Ohio stone and white brick trimmings.” Buried the church's cemetery is Caesar, who died on February 7, 1806, at 104 years of age. He was born in Africa and brought to America as a slave. He was freed from slavery in 1769. During the Revolutionary War Caesar drove a wagon and delivered supplies to the Continental troops at Blue Hills Fort and Camp. National Register of Historic Places listings in Union County, New Jersey
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When was Scotch Plains Baptist Church, Parsonage and Cemetery listed on the National Register?
Scotch Plains Baptist Church, Parsonage and Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 13, 2013.
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Scotch Plains Baptist Church, Parsonage and Cemetery is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.
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The period of significance for Scotch Plains Baptist Church, Parsonage and Cemetery is recorded as the industrial era.
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