LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ohio (WOWK) – Every Sunday, a congregation gathers for worship at the Union Baptist Church in Blackfork, Ohio.
For more than 200 years, people have gone through its doors. But its history spans far beyond Sunday service. Founded in 1819, it is the longest continuously operating African American church in Ohio.
Union Baptist was recently named to the National Park Service‘s Network to Freedom Marker Program in March…