Union Zion Baptist Church, which has served Gloucester’s black community since the days following the Civil War, was added recently to the Virginia Landmarks Register.The Ware Neck church, and seven other properties across the commonwealth, were added to the register by the Virginia Board of Historic Resources at its Sept. 19 quarterly meeting.Union Zion Baptist was founded by 17 people who resided within the Ware Neck community. In 1867, members of Zion Poplars Baptist Church and others in the Ware Neck community decided to have a church close by.“If you were to look at a map of this area, there’s the Ware River, which is less than a mile” from here, said Mary Gordon, who is a descendant of two of the founding members of Union Zion Baptist Church (Britton Gardner and Daniel Gardner) and also serves as the church clerk/secretary. “On the other side of the road, that Ware River divides Ware Neck from (what’s) on the other side, which is a community called Zanoni.”Gordon further explaine...