Countyline Missionary Baptist Church and its adjoining cemetery were established in November 1882 on land donated by Shade Adams. Originally given through a gentleman's agreement with the founding members, the land was deeded to the Countyline Baptist Church of Colored People in 1892. The first parishioners, including Adline Adams, wife of Shade, Jane and Alexander Johnson, and Robert and Harriett Wadsworth, had moved to the area from Brundidge and named their new church after the mother church they had left behind. The cemetery holds the graves of the donor and the founding members as well as scores of community members, and its earliest marked grave, that of Novie Miller Copeland, is dated November 13, 1893.