2026 SESSION
INTRODUCED
26109579D
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 421
Offered March 12, 2026
Commending Shiloh Baptist Church.
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Patron—Henson
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WHEREAS, for more than 155 years, Shiloh Baptist Church in Lorton has greatly served the community by providing uplifting spiritual guidance, joyous occasions for worship and fellowship, and meaningful opportunities for charitable outreach; and
WHEREAS, Shiloh Baptist Church is believed to have been founded in 1869; its members held their first meeting in a log cabin situated on a plot of land that had been set aside at the Gunston Hall plantation by Edward Daniels, a noted abolitionist and colonel in the Union Army who had purchased the historic estate from the descendants of George Mason; and
WHEREAS, after its first building burned to the ground, Shiloh Baptist Church trustees acquired land near the entrance to Gunston Hall in 1879 and built a new church building and cemetery on the site; and