North Pleasant Grove Baptist Church

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WPA Church Record for North Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Santa Fe, Alachua County, established in 1885. This Baptist church served a mainly white congregation, and was pastored at the time of the survey by Plato Cason.

Works Progress Administration, Historical Records Survey

State Library of Florida, WPA Survey of Church Records

1885

church records

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Depression Era Florida (1926-1939)

Baptist

Alachua County (Fla.)

Santa Fe

White

Plato Cason

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North Pleasant Grove Baptist Church

NORTH PLEASANT GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH, c1855--. 2 1/2 miles northwest of Santa Fe, on Worthington-Alachua Road, Santa Fe, Alachua County. Constituted c1885. Services in log house until present, rectangular, white, meeting-house type frame building, erected 1888. A half-time church, meeting 2nd and 4th Sundays. Present membership, 80. Earliest known pastor, Rev. Newt King, c1879-80, 1920; common school education. Present pastor, Rev. Plato Cason, 1939--, McRae, GA; Southern Baptist Seminary, Louisville, KY. LEDGER, (Church Record), 1900--, 2 vols. Title varies: UNIVERSAL CHURCH RECORD, 1900-20, 1 vol. Showing minutes of meetings, membership roll, 1 vol., 1900-20, also contains statistics for associational letter. Custody of clerk, Earl Hill, Route #1, Alachua. BIG BOOK (Financial Records), 1925--, 1 vol. Showing receipts and disbursements. Custody of clerk, Earl Hill, see supra. SUNDAY SCHOOL ROLL AND MINUTE BOOK, 1938--, 1 vol. Showing pupils, officers, teachers, attendance, collections. MIGHTY, (Baptist Young Peoples Union Record), 1934, 1 vol. Showing membership, attendance, collections.