Pilgrim Baptist Church
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- Congregation gathered at church on opening day -
The Pilgrim Baptist Church was started in 1863 by Reverend Robert T. Hickman and his prayer group. The building on 743 Central Avenue dates from 1928.
Date: December 16, 1928
Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society
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Robert Thomas Hickman
(1831-1900)
When the steamboat Northern arrived in 1863 carrying labor and equipment to defuse a Dakota Indian uprising, it also towed a raft of 76 ex-slaves that had been found drifting. The…