DRY FORK BAPTIST CHURCH

                    
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DRY FORK BAPTIST CHURCH

1878-

 

Dry Fork Missionary Baptist Church was organized in 1878 by Presley O’Keefe, W. J. Hicks, Shelby King, and A. A. Hensley, being first called King’s Chapel Baptist Church then  Dry Fork Baptist Church when it was located in the Dry Fork community. Dry Fork Baptist Church was later known as Pleasant Hill Baptist ChurchMacedonia Baptist Church, formed by 1885, changed its name to Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in 1890. Pleasant Hill Baptist Church was admitted to the Hamilton County Baptist Association on 14 August, 1891. The last year Pleasant Hill Baptist Church submitted a letter to Hamilton County Baptist Association was 1898. On 12 August, 1899, Pleasant Hill purchased land one acre of land at a cost of $100 out of the P. A. Sublet Survey from Mr. and Mrs. Erastus Kimber Ridenhower at Crossroads . The Pleasant Hill Church was moved to the new site (current location) of Olin Baptist Church and changed its name in 1900 to Olin Baptist Church.

 

 

 

 

 
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