Name: Mount Alto Baptist Church
Date: 2018
Image Number: MJ04cdMJ01
Comments: In 1882 and under the leadership of H. Allen, Mt. Alto Baptist Church was built on a ridge overlooking Mt. Alto Road. Its cornerstone (see below)
suggests the church underwent expansion or reconstruction in 1956 under the leadership of D.W. Allen.
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![Mt. Alto Cornerstone](MJ07cdMJ01MtAltoCornerstone.jpg) ![Mt. Alto Baptist Church Sign](MJ06cdMJ01MtAltoBaptistChurchsign.jpg)
The Mt. Alto Baptist Church property is located at 4330 Mt. Alto Rd. in Esmont, VA, and it also contains a small
Nearby at 4223 Mt. Alto Road sits an old schoolhouse called Mt. Alto School. According to the authors of a National Register
for Historic Places nomination form, the first Mt. Alto School "was built in 1890 for $700" and 19 students attended it.
The current Mt Alto School building dates to "around 1920," and is in a different location than the first school building by that name.
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Scottsville Museum wishes to thank Maxwell Johnson for his research and photographs on this Esmont
community church!
References:
Hallock, Jennifer ; Gardiner Hallock & Kristie Baynard. National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Southern Albemarle
Rural Historic District. February 2007.
Copyright © 2018 by Scottsville Museum
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