Flagg Spring Baptist Church
Flagg Spring Baptist Church Taken in June 1984.
An inventory was taken for Kentucky Historical Resources Inventory (R976.934.k37K) by Mrs. Richard Lindsay Roberts, of Fort Thomas, KY on 7 Nov 1970 survey. The date stone in the gable is Dec 7, 1833. Description is Broad gable-end with a pair of front doors. Graves face east, toward road. John Stephens First pastor, Clerk William J. Morin. The inventory sheets are two legal size pages.
Flagg Spring Baptist Church stands about 80 feet to the right of Highway 10. It is on Flagg Spring Creek. On the slight elevation, a Sycamore tree in front measuring about 14 feed in circumference, area on both sides of church are used as cemetery-older section to the right of church, newer stones to the left. The Church is red brick with white trim two front doors with octagonal panels, four windows on each side, panes 11 x11 of marbleized glass and this glass is not original. In the rear of the church are two windows with four panes in each window and panes measure 22 x 48. One original pane (green) remains in one window and three original panes (red, blue, green) are in the other window; balance of panes are clear. The foundation is stone, 13 to 14 inches and there is a small belfry.
The earliest record book (others burned) is dated 1896, but it is the record of the first meeting, date on which church was constituted (Dec. 7th, 1833) which also appears on the stone in front of church just under belfry. List of members attending the first meeting, name of first pastor elected – John Stephens and the first Clerk-William J Morin. The Church is supposed to have been named for Flag Spring Creek in field behind the building – (many iris (flags) grew along the creek.) The oldest members say clay was dug and bricks were fired on the site by the pastor who also worked at building the church. The church served the area along Highway 10 and settlements to each side of the Highways, as far as the river (Ohio) where Mentor and California are located and many residents along the river today are members of this church.
To the rear of new cemetery section is the grave of Lt. (Thomas Jefferson) McGraw, a local Confederate hero who was captured and executed at Johnson Island. A stone placed by the Basil Duke Chapter, U. D. C. states that he was executed by order of …"