1828 Baptismal pool uncovered

This is interesting! There's an old colored church not too far from me that still uses theirs.

 

Wow, interesting story. I didn't know they were pouring concrete in 1828!

My family's church for 5 generations - Smyrna Baptist Church near Mt. Enterprise, TX - had a baptismal pool of a similar nature. It was discovered sometime in the early 1970's and is near the original location of the first church - a log structure no longer in existence and about 5 miles from the present house or worship. The pool was down the hill from the place the the log church is thought to have been, near a creek. The members dug out a place around a spring (called Chinquapin Spring) and boarded it up with pine lumber. The lumber is still there. It is presently only a couple of feet deep, due to dirt and debris filling it in over the years. It was probably constructed shortly after the church was organized in 1873. BTW, several of the early members of Smyrna were from Georgia.

 

Concrete is an ancient mixture employed even by the ancient Egyptians:

http://matse1.mse.uiuc.edu/~tw/concrete/time.html

My church building (1824) covered over the original baptismal pool in the middle part of the last century but it still exists under the pulpit. Most folks are very surprised when they learn that it is there.