Perry County is significant in Baptist history, and this history is being highlighted as part of the Perry County Pathways emphasis this fall.
The Perry County Chamber of Commerce is hosting Journey Stories, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum on Main Street and the Alabama Humanities Foundation. The Old Marion Train Depot, host to the exhibit, is open Tuesday-Saturday from 10 a.m.–4 p.m. until Nov. 10.
Alabama Baptist Beginnings will be one of three events offered in conjunction with the Smithsonian event, and exhibits and photographs will be on display in the Bowling Library on the Judson College campus in Marion Oct. 10–Nov. 10.
Southern delegates met at Siloam Baptist Church, Marion, in 1844 and adopted the Alabama Resolutions that resulted in the separation of Southern and Northern Baptists in 1845. This was the beginning of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). The Board of Domestic Missions (now the North American Mission Board) of the SBC held its organizational meeting in 1845 at Siloam Baptist. Members of Siloam founded Judson in 1838 and Howard College (now Samford University) in 1841. The Alabama Baptist was founded in Marion in 1843 and was published in the city from 1843 to 1852 and again from 1873 to 1877.
Other planned emphases on the Judson campus include lectures about Native American migration in the middle Alabama region Oct. 19 and the local civil rights movement Nov. 10.
For more information, contact Beth Poole in the Judson development office at 334-683-5154. (JC)
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