Louisiana Baptist Convention

The thirteen Baptists who met at Mount Lebanon in 1848 first called themselves the Baptist State Convention of North Louisiana. By 1853 the name had dropped the word North, and it later became the Louisiana Baptist Convention. A history of Louisiana Baptists lists informal meetings there in 1847. The convention's members went on to found the college now called Louisiana Christian University, and Baptist hospitals in Alexandria, Baton Rouge and New Orleans date from the 1920s through the 1940s. Its offices are in Alexandria, and it publishes The Baptist Message.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Kent Plantation House — 1.4 mi
  Rapides Parish's oldest known standing building, a Creole house with a February tour and a 2023 memorial that put the enslaved first.
• Arna Bontemps African American Museum — 2.4 mi
  The restored Alexandria house where the Harlem Renaissance writer Arna Bontemps was born in 1902, on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.
• Forts Randolph and Buhlow State Historic Site — 3.0 mi
  Two Confederate earthen forts on the Red River at Pineville, built with enslaved labor and never attacked, beside the remains of Bailey's Dam.
• Louisiana Maneuvers and Military Museum — 7.2 mi
  A National Guard museum in a replica WWII barracks at Camp Beauregard, built around the huge 1940-41 war games in Central Louisiana. Free.

More markers nearby

• Kent Plantation House — 1.2 mi
• The Jewish Temple (Congregation Gemiluth Chassodim) — 1.4 mi
• Little Walter — 1.5 mi
• Cook Home — 1.6 mi