Greenway Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Ebenezer Baptist Church sits on the west side of Route 340 on the edge of White Post, Clarke County, Virginia, with a cemetery of about 200 marked graves surrounding it on three sides. A datestone gives 1918 for the current building, a one-story, gable-end frame structure on a rubble stone foundation. It replaced an 1897 church that burned. Pointed-arch window tracery and a diamond-shaped attic window give it a vernacular Gothic Revival look, and the interior retains its original floors, wainscot and pews. A mid-20th-century concrete block wing holds a kitchen and meeting room. The congregation received land for a burial ground in an 1884 deed, and several prominent local African-American families are buried there. The property was left out of the Greenway Historic District in 1993 because it was isolated across the highway. Later research on the church and its cemetery, and its similarity to other African-American churches in the district, led to its addition in 2007. The congregation still uses it.