For instance, First Baptist Church and Gillfield Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia, both had organized congregations by 1800 and were the first Baptist churches in the city.[56] Petersburg, an industrial city, by 1860 had 3,224 free Black people (36% of Black people, and about 26% of all free persons), the largest population in the South.[57][58] In Virginia, free Black people also created communities in Richmond, Virginia and other towns, where they could work as artisans and create businesses.[59] Others were able to buy land and farm in frontier areas further from white control.