Click image to enlarge. The Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church and Community Day School have served the community of Hamburg for many years. Constructed in 1912, the church was the only African American Baptist congregation in the Wilcox County farming community of Hamburg. For decades the adjacent school, dating from 1915, served the children of the community, many of whom worked the fields before attending classes. Today the church and the school look much as they did when they were built, but needed repair work is now hampered by lack of funds and an aging congregation. Still, members of the church and the community are determined to save these two local landmarks.
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