Place 3: Grace Baptist Church
1897–1985At Witcham and Jackson. Its clock and steeple figure in the final storm. The chosen corner is reconstructed.
About Grace Baptist Church
Grace Baptist Church is a long-standing civic and religious landmark at the meeting of Witcham and Jackson Streets. The church is associated with this corner from 1897 through the atlas’s principal periods, giving the junction a recognizable vertical marker in the form of its clock and steeple. On the reconstructed map it helps organize the school district and the route down Witcham, while remaining distinct from the nearby elementary school and residential properties.
Why this pin is marked A
Named in the novel. The street or the site is named in the text; the exact lot is the atlas’s.
The church is marked A because both streets and their intersection are stated explicitly, as is the church’s presence there since 1897. This firmly anchors the site to the Witcham–Jackson junction and supports its role in the surrounding street network. The source does not identify which of the four corner parcels the building occupies, nor does it supply surveyed dimensions or an orientation. The selected corner, footprint, and alignment of the church are therefore cartographic reconstruction rather than canonical geometry.
