Bethel Baptist Church

Bethel Baptist Church was organized in the early 1870s by "colored citizens of Amissville". The first pastor was reported to have been Rev. Vincent Casey. In 1911, Henry Gales, Woodson Davenport, and Oscar Roots were deeded 1/2 acre of land from W. N. & Mae Cunningham of Fauquier County. In 1926, Woodson Davenport, Robert Thompson, James Phillips, C.S. Williams, Wesley Phillips, and Lambert Jackson paid $438.75 to P. A. and Virginia Hughes for 3.9 acres of land on the opposite (west) side of Viewtown Road (site of the present church) from where the original church stood.