Coan Baptist Church

Coan Baptist Church stands one mile east of the site, its congregation first organized as Wicomico Baptist Church on 17 November 1804. Members initially worshiped in each other’s houses until a frame building called Coan Meeting House was moved to this site in 1811. In the 1830s, under pastor Jeremiah Bell Jeter, the congregation grew and required a larger building. On 3 October 1847, pastor Addison Hall dedicated the present church, which was built of locally fired bricks. Its stone steps were brought from Baltimore by sailing vessel to Barnes’s Wharf (Nokomis) and then carried by ox-drawn carts to the church. The building displays Federal architecture on the exterior and Greek Revival architecture in the interior.

Virginia · United States