First Baptist Church Fannin

The church has had three names and one bell. Organized in 1848 as Pelahatchie Baptist Church, after a nearby creek, it gave that name to a new Pelahatchie church in 1870 and became Fannin Baptist, and it took the name First Baptist in 1998. Its white wooden church and steeple went up in 1855. In 1947 members built a red brick chapel using the floors and bell from the first building. The first burial in the cemetery is dated 1843, and the chapel and cemetery became Mississippi Landmarks in 2022.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Natchez Trace Parkway at Ridgeland — 9.8 mi
  The stretch of the Natchez Trace around Ridgeland, where a worn section of the Old Trace, the Ross Barnett Reservoir and the Choctaw town of Chisha Foka share a few miles of parkway.
• Tougaloo College — 12 mi
  A historically Black college north of Jackson, founded on a former plantation in 1869, whose students staged Mississippi's first sit-in and whose chapel hosted the movement's leaders.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 15 mi
  A state museum in downtown Jackson, opened in 2017 beside the Museum of Mississippi History, that tells the movement from 1945 to 1970 through the people who made it.
• Old Capitol Museum — 15 mi
  Mississippi's Greek Revival statehouse of 1839, where the legislature voted to secede, Hiram Revels was elected to the U.S. Senate and the 1890 constitution was written, now a free state museum.

More markers nearby

• World War II Airfield Hangars — 8.8 mi
• Strawberry Patch House — 8.9 mi
• Dorroh Street Historic District — 9.5 mi
• Old School Gymnasium — 9.6 mi