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English: This memorial by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Kentucky for "The Travelling Church, 1781" is also known as State Marker 25 and is located on KY 39/Lancaster Rd, SE of Lancaster, Garrard Co., KY, 40444; 37.577915, -84.558316. Text on marker: "In search of religious freedom, the Reverend Lewis Craig led his entire congregation of 200 Baptists and 400 other settlers from Spotsylvania County Virginia and established them here on Gilbert's Creek. This expedition, guided through the wilderness by Captain William Ellis, was the largest group of pioneers ever to enter the District of Kentucky in a single body. Erected by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. 1947."
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Located on the southeast side of KY 39/Lancaster Rd, 3.5 miles southeast of Lancaster, Garrard Co., KY, 40444. See description and linked map at http://www.signsofhistory.com/kentucky/Garrard/garrard.htm archive copy at the Wayback Machine. See Marker 25 in situ at https://www.google.com/maps/@37.5780728,-84.5584358,3a,75y,180h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swcAf6RsR55fyji_FrvBmAg!2e0!7i3328!8i1664. For the location and text of State Marker 25, see "25 The Traveling Church, 1781" in Melba Porter Hay and Thomas H. Appleton Jr., eds., Roadside History: A Guide to Kentucky Highway Markers (Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society, 2002), 3; https://www.amazon.com/Roadside-History-Kentucky-Highway-Markers/dp/0916968294. Also see "The Traveling Church, 1781 Marker Number 25" on the Kentucky Historical Society's Historical Marker Database at http://migration.kentucky.gov/kyhs/hmdb/MarkerSearch.aspx?mode=County&county=40 archive copy at the Wayback Machine.

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