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Article: FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH FIRST CHURCH ON WEST SIDE

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February 28, 1999
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AURORA -- Historic First Baptist Church at Oak Avenue and Galena Boulevard has played host to strawberry socials, Thimble Bee meetings and Tom Thumb-style weddings featuring miniature brides and grooms. Considered to be the oldest congregation on the West Side of Aurora, the church now hosts Suzuki violin lessons and a Hispanic congregation.

First Baptist was begun as an American Baptist Church in 1837 when 10 members of the Warrenville Baptist Church began meeting in a log schoolhouse about 2 1/2 miles east of Aurora.

They were called the Big Woods Baptist Church.

In 1844, the church voted to begin meeting in Aurora, where they held their meetings in a schoolhouse located near the former ...

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