Old Tomahawk Baptist Church Cemetery in Midlothian, Virginia

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Get directions 13600 Genito Road
Midlothian, Virginia 23112 United States

Coordinates: 37.45008, -77.64989
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Old Tomahawk Baptist Church Cemetery was founded alongside Tomahawk Baptist Church in 1776. Tomahawk was the second baptist church in Chesterfield County after Rehoboth Baptist Church (now Chesterfield Baptist Church) was instituted in 1773 by Eleazar Clay, a first cousin once removed of US Senator Henry Clay. The congregation met in private homes at first and then built a meeting house in 1793 at the fork of Tomahawk Creek. In the 1850s a new building was built at the northwest corner of Genito Road and Hundred Road. This was replaced by a new church building in 1892. In 1918, the building was moved to the church's current location 2 miles south at 12920 Hull Street Road.

Today all that remains of the church's 1850s site is a cemetery that originally lay beside the church. The cemetery presently sits very close to the modern roadways of Charter Colony Parkway and Genito Road.