2860 Fleeburg Road
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Last updated on April 2, 2024
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Directions from Elk Run Cemetery on Elk Run Drive (Rockingham County, Virginia Tour site 34) to site 1:
- In 100 feet turn right onto North St
- In 0.7 mile turn left onto Hillside Ave
- In 100 feet turn right onto N East Side Hwy
- Continue for 3.8 miles then turn right onto Naked Creek Rd
- In 0.7 mile turn left onto Fleeburg Rd
- In 300 feet take the first left
- In another 300 feet the church and school are straight ahead
The Mt. Zion Baptist Church is a historically Black congregation, organized in 1873 and is still active today. The nearby historic Naked Creek School was connected to the church and it provided education to African Americans in the community. There is an intensive records of the attendance and class grades for the kept by the African American teachers dating by to 1921 that the church keeps reserved today.
