 HISTORY OF PLEASANT HILL BAPTIST CHURCH
In the 1830’s, neighbors in the area assembled in homes for church services. In 1837, Henry Sanders, a large land owner and operator of Sanders Tavern and Stage Coach Stop, donated land for the church and had the log meeting house built at his own expense. He named it Pleasant Hill after a place in his native Virginia. In May 1840, Good Hope, it’s mother church, gave permission to officially organize this congregation.
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church has had four different church buildings. Two of them were burned. The first fire started during the War Between the States and the second fire was so damaging as to make necessary the erection of the new building. The meeting house that was destroyed by fire on April 18, 1945, was a frame structure which had been built in the late 1890's and had been remodeled with the expenditure of several thousand dollars a short time before the conflagration. In addition to the loss of the building by this crisis, the church also sustained a heavy financial loss, having only a few thousand dollars of fire insurance at the time. |
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