About Us:

Members of the First Baptist Church represent different communions, but one fellowship; varied beliefs, but one faith; many viewpoints, but one Christ.  We agree to differ,resolve to love, unite to serve.

Church History:

In the year 1745, 73 persons began to gather a church in Attleborough. Among them were the families of Joshua Everett, Josiah Maxey, Elihu Daggett, Israel Hatch, Samuel Fisher, Joseph Guild and John Sprague. The first meeting house was started sometime before the outbreak of the Revolution. For many reasons, completion of the building had to wait until 1784.

The meeting house at North Attleboro had the bare essentials of protection from the weather, clapboard exterior and small windows, unpainted pews, with an open fireplace, a pulpit and little else. A school was later built on the site. By the year 1815, the need for a new house of worship became imperative. A house and lot were, bought form the Cotton Manf. Co for a parsonage. The location was on the north side of what is now Whiting Pond. The first lot west of the property at the corner of Park St. Members cut timbers from their wood lots and brought stone from their farms using their oxen to perform heavy tasks. An operator of a foundry in Pawtucket, Abraham Wilkinson, gave a bell to the meeting house.

The site of the second meeting house was on "Baptist Common". a prominent piece of land between the north and south roads. Bay Road (now lower Park St.) and the turnpike (now North Washington). Israel Hatch donated the property across the street from his own house. The common became a center of community life. Trees were planted, a flag pole was erected and called the liberty pole during the Civil War. It was located in a center of a platform which was used for band concerts and public celebrations. Monuments to both WW I and WW II were erected on the common. Sheds for horses and carriages were erected on West street. Inside, the meeting house could be described like many others of the day. There was an old pulpit from the 1880s that had a structure out to the side forming a partial enclosure in which the minister could stand, behind a sloping desk like top. The pews were no longer the huge square type however, there were still hinged doors opening into the aisle. Members of the congregation generally occupid  the same place year after year and many pews were provided with foot stools.