FROM A SMALL BEGINNING AROUND 1852, IN A RESIDENCE ON COAL LICK, AN AREA JUST OUTSIDE ALBRIGHT PROPER, THE EARLY CONGREGATION WAS KNOW AS THE CHEAT RIVER BAPTIST CHURCH. 
 
   A CHURCH LOT WAS DONATED IN ALBRIGHT, BY DAVID ALBRIGHT AND WAS DEEDED TO THE CHURCH BY MRS. DAVID ALBRIGHT IN 1856. IN 1857 THE CHURCH WAS CONSTRUCTED WITH TIMBER HARVESTED FROM THE HILLSIDE ACROSS THE RIVER AND IT BECAME THE ALBRIGHT BAPTIST CHURCH.

   THE DISASTROUS FLOOD, OF NOVEMBER 5, 1985, DESTROYED THE CHURCH ALONG WITH MUCH OF ALBRIGHT. A HANDICAP RAMP INSTALLED IN THE 1970'S PREVENTED THE CHURCH FROM WASHING AWAY. THE RAGING WATER ROCKED, TWISTED, BENT AND BROKE THE CHURCH IN HALF. WITH THE FOUNDATION SWEPT AWAY, IT CRUMBLED TO THE GROUND WHEN THE WATER RECEDED. 

   THEN GOD INTERVENED AND CALLED FOURTH HIS PEOPLE. ENDOWED WITH TIME, TALENT, AND RESOURCES THE CHURCH WAS REBUILT. 

   DEBT FREE, IT WAS DEDICATED TO GOD'S GLORY ON AUGUST 9, 1987, 130 YEARS AFTER THE FIRST BUILDING WAS BUILT.

   THE CHURCH CONTINUES TODAY TO BE A VITAL WITNESS AND VESSEL IN THE COMMUNITY FOR THE GLORY OF GOD. 

FROM MORGANTOWN AREA
Merge onto I-68 E.  15.36 miles 

Take the WV-26 exit- exit number 23- towards 
BRUCETON MILLS.  0.13 miles 

Turn RIGHT onto WV-26.  0.20 miles 

Go  11.82 miles on WV-26
to the town of ALBRIGHT

We are right across from the Albright Kwik Stop

Total Estimated Time:  30 Minutes

We are approximately 3 miles from Kingwood, WV
and
30 miles west of Oakland, MD