Bullittsburg Baptist Church is located at 2616 Bullittsburg Church Road, Petersburg

Petersburg, Kentucky

Petersburg is an unincorporated community in Boone County, Kentucky, United States. The community was established about 1800, known at the time as Tanner's Station. The Bullittsburg Baptist Church was founded outside former hamlets of Utzinger and Gainesville/Idewild, east and north of Petersburg...

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Boone County, Kentucky

Boone County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It was formed in 1798. The population was 118,811 in the 2010 Census. Its county seat is Burlington. The county is named for frontiersman Daniel Boone...

. This Baptist Church was organized in June, 1794, by Elders John Taylor (1752-1833)

John Taylor (1752-1833)

John Taylor was a pioneer Baptist preacher, religious writer, frontier historian and planter in north and central Kentucky. His two histories of early Baptist churches in Kentucky provide insight into the frontier society of the early decades of the 19th century...

, Joseph Redding, and William Cave. The church erected the first house of worship in 1797. This is the oldest church in the northern region of Kentucky

Kentucky

The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...

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The church has an active membership today. Sunday Services are at 10:30 a.m.

The church is located at Exit 11 I-275 across the interstate from the Creation Museum

Creation Museum

The Creation Museum is a museum near Petersburg, Kentucky that presents an account of the origins of the universe, life, mankind, and man's early history according to a literal reading of the Book of Genesis...

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