Historic Black Church Won Federal Funds for Restoration. Why Is It Sitting Empty?

$150K to make the building usable hangs in the balance Old First Baptist Church in San Marcos (Photo from Patrick Melon @melontao) A year after the end of the Civil War, a congregation of former slaves south of Austin built a church where they could praise the God who […]

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