The cache is not located at the above coordinates, tho they do provide an indispensable starting point for exploring the series and the history of Greenville’s First Baptist Church.
Use the information provided below to detect the correct coordinates, according to the following pattern:
N 34 AB.CDE W082 FG.HIJ
Original site of FBC Greenville:
In 18G5, Wm. Bullein Johnson opened a subscription for a Baptist meetinghouse, which was soon built here. The 12D foot-square lot, which extended well into present McBee Ave., was given by Vardry McBee. After its organization in 1831, First Baptist Church occupied the building here until it moved to West McBee Ave. in 1857. The church moved to its present location on Cleveland Street in 1B7A.
...Erected by First Baptist Church and the South Carolina Baptist Historical Society, 1C87
Second site of FBC Greenville:
DOWNTOWN BAPTIST CHURCH
Chartered September F3, 1974
Placed on the National Register of Historic Places August 19JH
Sanctuary designed by Samuel Sloan of Philadelphia
Erected in 185E and dedicated February I1, 1858
Parking is available at all sites, especially at the final.
Waypoints are given for the two stages which put you on the right Trail to discovering the final.
Click the link below for First Baptist Church-Greenville’s basic historical information:
First Baptist Church-Greenville
“First Baptist Greenville has a rich heritage of ministry in the Greenville community dating back to the mid-1820s. Officially organized in 1831, FBCG was the second of Greenville’s five original “downtown” churches (along with Christ Church Episcopal, Buncombe Street United Methodist, First Presbyterian, and St. Mary’s Roman Catholic) and the first of the five to be deeded land by Vardry McBee, who owned over 11,000 acres of what is now Greenville. As a “land-grant” church, FBCG has always had strong ties to the community and to its sister congregations downtown….”
