Founded in 1870, the First Union Free Mission Baptist Church was organized by a delegation representing the American Baptist Free Mission Society of Boston, an interracial antislavery group.
Ashton Villa has served as the site to commemorate the modern reading of the Emancipation proclamation for more than 25 years.
Mount Olive was organized in 1876 as an extension of Avenue L Missionary Baptist Church, the Reverend I. S. Campbell, pastor.
Formerly the Colored Branch of the Rosenberg Library, Texas’s First African American Public Library, 1905.
The Rosewood Cemetery Association was founded by African Americans in Galveston around 1911.
In 1894, 36 members of Union Baptist Church received letters to dismiss them from the church. They started a new church, which evolved into St. Luke's.
In the 1860s, the Methodist Episcopal Bishop was notified that another African Methodist Church was needed in Galveston for people who resided west of 25th Street.
The Reverend Peter Cavanaugh organized the church in 1869 as an independent congregation.
This church was organized in 1870 as West Point Free Mission Baptist Church with the Reverend E. T. Hall serving as pastor.
The church was organized in 1883 on the corner of 30th at Avenue I as West Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church.
