World's Hardest Antebellum Building Trivia Question

It's the end of the year -- and you all have been fantastic at picking off the trivia questions.  Over time I guess the accomplishments of Owen, Richard Paschal, Jason Mazzone, Calvin Massey, Alissa Ardito, Joan Vogel, Bob Steinfeld, Joel Eisen, Robert Folsom, Brando Starkey, and anyone else who picked off a trivia question this year whom I've failed to list will live in myth and memory.  And over time the memory and the myth will converge.  That's how this memory business works, after all.

So I guess it's time to have a really tough test.  Even if the heading of this post is an exaggeration (which it may not be), this is certainly very, very difficult.   This is the hardest antebellum trivia question I've asked and it's the kind pf question I don't think is fair, really -- it's in a very obscure place.  Where is it and what is it?  And why is it important?  Good luck.  Even with the writing on the front it's an absurdly difficult  question.  Go ahead, google it.  See if that helps.  When you're ready for a hint let me know.

Comments

[Michael Kors Bags]

Actually This post is exactly what I am interested. we need some more good information.

[Steve Garland]

I'll take a shot that it is the Antioch Baptist Church marked by Virginia Historical marker U0-6 (aka Raccoon Swamp Meetinghouse) perhaps famous (though not on the marker) as the location where the witness "Beck" in a trial of slaves implicated in the Nat Turner rebellion said she overheard the conspiracy (or so my limited Google search reveals, with appropriate Internet caveats). Have enjoyed seeing these and have wanted to try my hand at tracking down a photo since you used Bob Fleck's Oak Knoll Books some time ago.

[Alfred Brophy]

You got it Steve! Congratulations. Right on the church (the former Raccoon Swamp Meetinghouse) -- now the Antioch Baptist Church, in Yale, Virginia -- and on the importance of the place (where Beck is supposed to have heard talk of rebellion the spring before Nat Turner's August 1831 rebellion). I took this picture last week on the way home from Chapel Hill. It's in a beautiful part of Virginia, but it's mighty remote. Soon I'm going to be talking about Beck, the people whose testimony she sent to the gallows, and the lawyers who defended them.

Again, Steve, congratulations.